>Our current status is that the group file is missing. Looking through old
>backups it has been missing for quite a while. All the household information
>about individuals seems to be intact so that you only notice that groups is
>missing when you try to add someone to a household. I did find a very old
>groups file, missing almost everything (only 2 entries). I looked through
>the scripts and did not see one which would recreate the group file but it
>looks like it can be done. So here's hoping someone else has had the problem
>and created a script to recreate it.
Looks like you're in over the head of most everyone on the list. I've
never hear of a similar problem. I don't believe there is a script to
recreate the group file. What did you have in mind to do that? I
think the information to recreate the groups file is in the several
fields in the names table relating to householding, but it doesn't
look easy to parse it out. Best of luck, and if you get it figured
out, please let the list know.
>
>Secondary problem:
>
>While diagnosing the problem I discovered that we have been running without
>all the files opened for a while. If we were in all files open mode, I
>presume we would have gotten a nasty message about group being missing the
>next time we started FMP and could have then gone back to a more recent
>backup.
...
> I am quite sure no one deleted
>the group file explicitly as all but one of the users doesn't have a clue of
>how to do that. Are there bugs in FMP that sometimes delete files? or
>perhaps just confusing dialog boxes that might have convinced someone to do
>something bad? All the files are managed by FM Server.
I believe that the groups file must have been deleted by someone
explicitly, although accidentally. I have never heard of FileMaker
deleting files undetected. Much easier to imagine someone
accidentally deleting a file.
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Dave Shaw Northwest Classics, Inc
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