But the good news is that you should be able to import those 300 records from your
recovered version into your backup. Generally, when a file is corrupted it's the
structure of the file being damaged that causes continued problems, not the data.
So keep your recovered file as Names_RE for now, open it, and find the records that
were created since the last backup. With these as your found set, now open your
backed-up version (first throw away the damaged files) and do an import command.
Specify the Names_RE file, choose matching names, and it will import only those
records you found. Please be aware that you will have to import those same 300 record
numbers into Summary, Profile, and Custom, as well as import any Payments, pledges,
Notes, etc. that were associated with those 300. This whole operation requires some
familiarity with the structure of Ebase to get it right.
Make backups of your backups before you start importing into them so you have a clean
copy if something goes wrong!
HTH,
Matt
At 03:04 PM 6/29/01 -0400, you wrote:
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>> Matt Grosso
>> DC Vote
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>> ps. please don't tell me I have to recover from our backup, it was about a
>> week ago and there have been about 300 new entries since then.
>>
>
>Sorry but you really should go back to the backup - even it if was 1000
>records.
>
>All the reports are that you will continue to have obscure errors if you
>continue with a file produced by the recover command.
>
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