Re: Avoiding database corruption?

[Norman W. Ferguson]

Title: Re: Avoiding database corruption?

on 6/7/04 4:37 PM, Barry Wainwright at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> If you are going to back up the database, make sure the script quits all
> office apps AND the database Daemon (tell app "Microsoft Database Daemon" to
> quit) before you take the copy. Taking a copy with the daemon still running
> is likely to create an incomplete copy because file buffers in the daemon
> have not been written back to disk.
>

So, Barry, if I understand you correctly, my script which quits Entourage2004 before my nightly backup which reads:

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
    repeat while connection in progress is true
       delay 1
    end repeat
   quit
end tell

:should really read:

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
    repeat while connection in progress is true
       delay 1
    end repeat
   quit
end tell
tell application "Microsoft Database Daemon"
    quit
end tell



Since I don’t normally run other Office apps overnight, I’m not going to worry about them.

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