Rich, it might be worth renaming the old DB rather than deleting it, or move it somewhere (C:\Temp, perhaps) until you're sure everything's ok.
Regards, Alastair. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard A. Starkey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 12:57 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - DB Vanishes??? > I just had this happen to me last Friday. I have a rmd that runs > autochk full, then reloads the DB checks to see if the reloaded files > exist and then deletes the original db files and renames the reloaded DB > files and then runs autocheck again. > > During the process on Friday I received an I/O error saying my disk > drive was probably full, when I checked my available space on the disk I > had 2.3 Gig of space. The r> screen ended with no errors found but the > database was GONE! all 4 RB files disappeared. All I could do was go > to my backup copy and start over. > > This is version 6.5+ that we use at work. I have run the reloadDB.rmd > many times and never had this happen. I guess the GREMLINS were out > Friday. > > Rich Starkey > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Albert > Berry > Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2002 3:10 PM > To: RBASE-L Mailing List > Subject: [RBASE-L] - DB Vanishes??? > > > I have not seen this before. We use cascading renames so as to avoid > any possibility of this happening - we do not delete the most recent. > We have names such as Current.rb?, LastDB1.rb?, LastDB2.rb?. > > We rename the database to something like dbReload, Reload Current, run a > Compare.rmd (recently posted to list - ask if you want a copy) that > compares all the tables and rows to make sure everything made it. If it > is good, we delete LastDB2, rename LastDB1 to LastDB2, and rename > dbReload to LastDB1. > > > Dennis Fleming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I've not seen this before. Our Reload option builds a new set of files > >using Reload, and if all OK, the old DB is deleted and the newone > renamed. > > > >Customer calls and indicates there was a program exception during > reload > >process, and then a program exception. Normally, as a result of power > loss > >or whatever, the result would be 4 dbname files and 4 newdbname files > (at > >some level of completion). In this case, there was only a newdbname.rb1 > > > >Plenty of disk space. Running on NT. Anyone see this before??? > > > >TIA, > > > >Dennis > >***** > >Dennis Fleming > >IISCO > >http://www.TheBestCMMS.com > >Phone: 570 775-7593 > >Fax: 570 775-9797 > > > > > > > -- > Albert Berry > Full Time Consultant to > PSD Solutions > 350 West Hubbard, Suite 210 > Chicago, IL 60610 > 312-828-9253 Ext. 32 > > > __________________________________________________________________ > The NEW Netscape 7.0 browser is now available. Upgrade now! > http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp > > Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at > http://webmail.netscape.com/ >
