Hello Sue,
One question: are you accessing Ebase over a network, or is it on your local hard
drive? And are you using the runtime version, or through Filemaker?
Matt
At 12:12 PM 8/24/01 -0500, you wrote:
>There's something strange happening to our database. I opened it up this
>morning, and it was just fine, for about 5 minutes, and then I got a
>"names file is damaged" message. I went to yesterday's backup, and the
>same thing happened. Before it crashed, I was able to check for
>yesterday's data entry, and everything was there. I opened up yesterday's
>backup again, and I haven't had any problems yet, but I'm concerened the
>file is damaged, and I don't want to start entering new data until I know
>for sure. Usually when the names file is damaged a message will pop up
>immediately, and I won't be able to open the database at all. Is there a
>way to check the names file to see if it is damagaged? If the file is
>damaged, can I somehow save yesterday's numerous new records and import
>them into the back-up for the 22nd? Thanks for your help!
>
>Sue Gilbert
>
>PS The "Names file is damaged" message just popped-up on the database.
>When asked if I wanted to continue using the database I clicked yes, and
>got a message that said "Sorry. Filemaker is unable to read the disk this
>file is on. Click continue to try again, or click Exit and copy this file
>to another disk."
>
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