Chuck, I had this kind of thing happen once when a PC running DOS had some flaky memory in just the wrong place. It took weeks to track down. The memory would allow bits to flip but there was no error correction, no NMI. As a result, when that machine wrote back to the RB1 file it would corrupt it. In this case we got table and column names with strange characters in them, and row counts all wrong. The way I figured it out is that I noticed that the corrupt characters were always the same number away from what they should be when looking at an ASCII chart. Replaced the PC, end of problem.
Emmitt At 09:35 AM 7/12/2002 -0400, you wrote: >A client is suddenly having his RB1 file destroyed! Has happened twice in >the last month and it never happened in the previous 15 years of using >RBase! > >Its a rather complex RBWin 6.1 system on Novell 5.1, with both Rbase and VB >front ends. Although there are regular changes to the apps, nothing has >been identified that would cause the destruction. > >In both cases, you can still connect to the database, but tables/rows are >missing in mass. > >By copying over an RB1 from the backup and reloading the DB, everything >returns to normal with all data intact. (At least so far!) > >Causes? > >Thanks, > >Chuck Lockwood >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >LockData Technologies, Inc. >309 Main Avenue, Hawley, Pa 18428 >Phone: 570-226-7340 ~ Fax: 570-226-7341 >Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ http://www.lockdata.com >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Emmitt Dove Manager, DairyPak Business Systems Blue Ridge Paper Products, Inc. 40 Lindeman Drive Trumbull, CT 06611 (203) 673-2231 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/
