Ben Petersen wrote:
>
> Nicky,
>
> I suspect you're on the right track, but in the repair dialog it
> currently shows what the diagnostic says it expects, so the only
> option is to make changes to effect what the file sizes actually are.
>
... and can you decline to make changes?
> I'm assuming that these errors are causing the errors shown in the
> data file (virtually every table). Until they rebooted their server I
> couldn't even copy the #1 file via pcAnywhere, (but maybe I'm all
> wet....) before and after correcting the #1 file there are a gazillion
> errors referring to values that don't match the structure file with a
> broken pointer or two thrown in for good measure.
>
Charming! I guess they may now get religion about backups ... which
reminds me ... :-)
Nicky