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Matt,
Your
database may become corrupt for any of the following reasons (and possibly
others):
1.
Disk failure of some kind (bad sectors, etc.).
2.
Some other application has modified the GDB and GD~ files (a virus
perhaps?).
3. We
have a serious bug that you have uncovered in your use.
In our
opinion, possibility 3 is the least likely. Our support records show
that we have not had a corrupted database reported in over 4 years other than a
problem compressing databases > 2Gb in size, which was fixed in 4.3
sp3. Databases were designed to insure integrity right from the start, and
our design accounts for a software failure, running out of disk space, and
the worst-case of loss of power. We cannot see how you can loose
both the primary and backup indexes.
However, we do consider a corrupt database very serious
and we would like you to please send us your GDB and GD~ files to see if we can
determine what caused your problem.
The best advice with any application is to
perform regular backups. Ask yourself "What time effort am I willing to
loose", and base your backup strategy on this. You can loose anything on
your computer at any time for a variety of reasons.
Tom Cuthbertson Software and services for effective earth science decision-making. www.geosoft.com Geosoft Inc. Tel. (416) 369-0111
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- [geonet]: DATABASE INDEX CORRUPT Matt Pozza
- Tom Cuthbertson
