Thanks Bill. Unfortunately, this exercise was meant to root out what might have happened. The autochk yielded no errors and the backup failed. I had to reload from a previous good backup, made (only) an hour earlier.
Thanks for looking at it. Claudine _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Eyring Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 7:35 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: V8 Disappearing Form Table/View Connections Claudine, No, I wouldn't remove the pack index from your backup routine. I believe the culprit lies elsewhere. Probably in either Rbase freezing during a save in forms or a save in table modification. After you ran pack index, do an autochk full and a reload and you're probably good to go. Bill _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Claudine Robbins Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 7:52 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: V8 Disappearing Form Table/View Connections Bill, Very interesting. My form names are there but not the Table/View associations or the Description fields but ONLY in the database explorer, everything is there in the actual sys_forms3 table... The backup is unusable, output file is 35K and lob file is missing altogether. I issued PACK INDEX at the R:> just now and things appeared back to normal. I had already restored the rows in SYS_FORMS3 table earlier after Karen's and Gary's messages. The remaining mystery is that I have a PACK INDEX line in my backup routine. Could this be the culprit and should I then remove it? Claudine _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Eyring Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 6:09 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - RE: V8 Disappearing Form Table/View Connections Claudine, I'm sorry for coming into this late. I had the same problem (disappearing form names). Don't know what caused it. I seem to recall that I did a Pack Index command and it brought back the forms. If that didn't do it, then a reload definitely did. See if it works for you. Hope all is well. Bill _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Claudine Robbins Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 11:47 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - V8 Disappearing Form Table/View Connections I am hoping that someone has experienced this and can shed some light on why this has happened and maybe how to resolve it. This is the second time this has happened to me. Both times, I recovered the database forms (listing) by restoring a previous backup. Out of the blue, in R:BASE Explorer, Forms tab, the form names are listed but the Table/View and Form Description columns are blank. When starting the database, an error message warns the user that the main form cannot be loaded. Same error when I try to DESIGN the form. The form is based on FormTable which exists and has only one row. An UNLOAD ALL backup yields a very small file 35 K and no LOB! Upon close inspection, the SYS_FORMS3 has all the forms with their respective table/view, a description and the LOB data INTACT. Thinking that I could UNLOAD the sys_forms3 data, delete the sys_forms3 table and reload it from the backup, this is what I did and the resulting errors. SET NULL -0- OUTPUT SYSFORMS3.DTA UNLOAD ALL FROM SYS_FORMS3 OUT SCREEN RUN SYSFORMS3.DTA -ERROR- You cannot delete a system table. ( 10) -ERROR- Duplicate database name ( 720) Database Exists -ERROR- Illegal table name - SYS_FORMS3 (2037) Begin R:BASE Data Loading for SYS_FORMS3 End R:BASE Data Loading Even with the errors, I ended up with TWO ROWS for each form, clearly visible in the R:BASE Explorer | Forms tab. DELETE DUPLICATES FROM SYS_FORMS3 USING SYS_FORM_NAME 136 row(s) have been deleted from SYS_FORMS3 I am returned to a Forms List with no Table/View or Form Description in R:BASE Explorer. TIA, Claudine
