Hi Doug,
is fixtool the best way to repair a universe file?
In my experience with the various repair tools over many years of working
with UniVerse, fixtool does seem to be able to repair more corruptions than
the previous tools.
I read somewhere that all it does is fix the broken link
I read somewhere that all it does is fix the broken link (fixing
the
file but losing the data that the broken link pointed to).
This may be all that can be done. A backward link error often means
that
two groups apparently own the same overflow block. The data of one
will
have
here that this is (to me) a major reason why you want to avoid
overflow. Wide and shallow shall be your files. If you have no overflow (an
impossible ideal, but strive in that direction), you cannot have broken links
to overflow. Subject: RE: [U2] fixtool Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 12:04:30
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Subject: RE: [U2] fixtool
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 13:59:55 -0400
Wide and shallow shall be your files.
That was Dan channeling Yoda (though the verb should have been at the end: wide
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Subject: [U2] fixtool
Hey all,
is fixtool the best way to repair a universe file? I read somewhere
that all it does is fix the broken link (fixing the file but losing the
data that the broken
Hey all,
is fixtool the best way to repair a universe file? I read somewhere
that all it does is fix the broken link (fixing the file but losing the
data that the broken link pointed to). The reason I ask is that we had data
corruption a few days ago and are now running into lots of
