Hi Richard,
Can you open any PCB file? sounds like maybe the problem
is with Protel and not the PCB file.
Darren
> Does anybody know how or whether it is possible to recover
> a PCB file which fails to open?
>
> The database opens fine, but when the PCB is reopened, I get an
> 'Access Violation at addree 0E11CA7F in module AdvPCB.dll'.
>
> It wouldn't be so bad, except that the backup copies are
> similarly afflicted. (kind of negates the point of making regular
> saves of the your work!)
>
> Mysteriously, the data must still be there since I can still
> perform a 'Print Preview', without having the PCB open.
>
> 'Repairing' the database with the option in the Design Utilities'
> doesn't help (Does it actually do anything?)
>
>
>
> Many thanks
>
> Richard Pender
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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>
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