Jim, Guess it depends on your philosophy.
I keep 2 subfolder in the directory for Forms and Reports. That way if I need to reload either all I have to do is grab it and run and the form is back up and running. I've a couple of cases (very rarely) where a form just quits and a simple reload restores me to operation. Jan -----Original Message----- From: "Jim Belisle" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] (RBASE-L Mailing List) Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:00:55 -0500 Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: UNLOAD LOAD FORMS & REPORTS Karen, Once I load the backup form, do I then delete the frm and lob file from my directory? Jim From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 1:55 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: UNLOAD LOAD FORMS & REPORTS Jim: As you mentioned, bring in your backup copy of the database, and use the right-click "unload" function in the form section of the database explorer. This will create 2 files with the name of your form, a .frm and a .lob. Then you open up your current copy of the database and at the r> prompt simply: RUN yourfilename.FRM If the .frm and .lob aren't in the current database directory, just include where it is: RUN c:\olddirectory\yourfilename.FRM The file will automatically delete the current version of the form and then bring in from the backup. You will want to make sure that SET NULL -0- is the setting both when you unload the form from your backup, and when you bring it in. That's all there is to it! Karen I am very unfamiliar with unloading and loading the forms &reports. Here is my situation: After creating a new form and then changing it this morning, somehow some of my forms and reports got messed up. I want to keep the data that has been entered for the last couple of days, so I would just like to unload the affected forms from my last backup. What is the proper procedure for this. I see the unload form function while in the forms section and have done that before but how do I load it into my database. Whenever I’ve tried it before, I mess things up. Jim
