Thanks everyone for you help. Carl walked me through what I hope solved the
problem. I had five copies of ebase on my hard drive. We deleted four of
them and zipped a copy of the fifth as a back up. This wasn't as easy as it
sounds. We had to retrieve info on when each of the files were last used
and keep the most recent one.
I still have to check and make sure that my data for the last few months is
in the one we saved. Thanks goodness we always save our hard copies of
info to be added to ebase).
So a reminder to everyone - DON"T BACK UP ON YOUR HARD DRIVE UNLESS YOU
ZIP OR CLONE EBASE!!!
Valerie Ansted Warden
Georgia ForestWatch
4 River St., Ste. C
Ellijay, GA 30540
706-635-8733
www.gafw.org
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From: "Walt Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "TechRocks Support" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 12:01 AM
Subject: [support] RE: unable to read disk
> From the traffic I have seen on this issue, I am about 99% certain that
> there is nothing wrong with your disk or you copy of the program. Try
> opening your last backup. I bet that works. If you ever crash your machine
> with FileMaker files open there is a high probability of damage to one or
> more of the ebase files. The damage can result in crashing FileMaker on
> startup, the problem you are seeing, insideous changes to the file that
may
> show up months later. I have seen all of these happen.
>
> As a general problem solving technique, if you are getting ANY strange,
> unexpected behavior, try what you are doing on a backup before looking for
> more obscure problems. If the backup succeeds, the answer is almost
> certainly that your live data is damaged. At that point it only a question
> of whether you can play catchup from the last backup or get an expert to
try
> to recover as much as possible from the failed version. If the backup also
> fails, in a similar fashion, go to the backup of the backup, etc. The next
> step should be to take your data to a different machine and try to run it
> with the distribution runtime version, replacing the sample data with your
> data. If this works you know your data is ok and that something obscure is
> wrong with your normal machine. For most people a complete reinstall of
the
> OS on the broken system is the easiest path if you don't have a handy
wizard
> available.
>
>
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