At 2:40 PM -0500 1/18/01, John Watkins wrote: >Inadvertently, I added a contact record to a substantial found set >of records and when I tried to delete just that contact, all of the >contacts for those records were removed. > >My problem now is how to restore those contacts. I have a backup >which is correct for all the records I messed up, but I want to >avoid having to add in the new records - about 28 fairly important >contacts. > >Is there any easy way to start with the backup and add those 28 newer records? If I understand correctly, you're asking if there is any place those deleted contact records are stored, from which you can recover them. Answer to that is, unfortunately, no. You can re-create the contact records by going through the output process by which you originally created them, and at the step in the wizard when you get a choice to print the letter (or send the email, or whatever) just choose NO. Then continue to create the contact records. >Alternately, is there an easy way to import the correct contact >records from the backup to the newer record? I don't think you'll have to do this, but if your backup is indeed recent enough to be correct except for the deleted records, you could just copy the backup contacts file into your active ebase folder, replacing the current one. >Also, how should I have deleted that erroneous contact record? > It sounds as if you went wrong searching for the pertinent records. Probably searched for a set of record numbers, forgetting that there would be many records for a given individual. You will need to search for the particular set of contacts that you want to delete - probably the date or source code. -- Dave Shaw Northwest Classics, Inc tel: 206-954-7526 fax: 206-625-1338 ------------------ You are currently subscribed to support as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ebase - Relationship Management for Nonprofits, http://www.ebase.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------
