Tom, You've got some corruption, possibly 2 tables with the same name.
You can try any or all of these to try and resolve it: Do a straight reload - press [Return] on any error messages. You may end up with a good db or you may be missing a few rows from one or more tables or even one or more tables themselves. Might be better than nothing even if you lose a little. Do an R:Base backup and restore. Again, try to ignore any error messages if you get them. You might need to split your backup output file into structure and data files rather than one big one. Try the easy way first. You'll need to either move the original database or create a new directory for the restored db before you run the restore(s). If the backup and restore fails try looking through the structure part of the output file to see if you can find any obvious errors or duplications. If so delete the second entry. It so happens that I needed to solve the same problem the other day when R:Base crashed on saving an amended table. (NB: This is a _very_ rare occurrence - just one of those things that does sometimes happen. It was nothing to do with the saga of crashes discussed at length elsewhere.) I ended up with 2 definitions for the same table but the data was ok. Editing the structure saved the day. If you know what table is the problem try searching the backup file for its name. You should easily find the duplicate if there is one. You might also try packing the keys only but be careful and use a copy of the database. If R:Base can't re-create the keys you might have even more trouble. If none of that helps you probably need to get hold of R:Scope or a recent backup. Good luck, Regards, Alastair. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Eldred" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 5:04 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - hmmm strange happenings > Good Afternoon everyone... > > I have a recent and unusual development here on my end. We are using 6.55++ > 1.862xRT03 on Windows 98 across a Netware 6 network and as of this morning, > all of the descriptions for tables and columns seem to be some what > scrambled. > > There have been no changes to our data structure or other programming, but > in the place of the old descriptions are messages such as "#COM_ID=65565" , > "#COM_ID=65572" ... and where that message doesn't appear the descriptions > are randomly mismatched. > > I attempted to access the same data from a know to be good back up > (11-19-02) and I see the same results. Is there an issue with the in-line > patch 3 and older "legacy" databases or is this a glitch someother way?.... > > any assistance would be greatly appreciated > > thanks > tom > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Thom Cimicato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 11:47 AM > Subject: [RBASE-L] - Funky PDF Files > > > > > > > > > >Using Win6.5++ I create pdf report files on NT. Worked fine for months up > > >until yesterday. Now I get funky boxes as characters in the pdf file. I > > >suspect some sort of font issue but I don't have a clue how to correct > > >this. The Acrobat setting is set to embed all fonts but doesn't remedy > the > > >problem. > > > > > >Any clues out there??? Thanx! > > > > > >Thom > > > > Thomas J Cimicato > > President > > Integrated Check Technologies > > Collect-A-Check, Inc. > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > Bus:800.338.0676 > > Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > www.ICheckTech.com > > > > >
