I've gotten the Unable to Read Disk if the file opening procedure has
somehow been interrupted. This typically happens on our webserver.
Shutting down and restarting Filemaker usually resolves the problem.
You might want to check to make sure that you have enough disk space
as well. You didn't say which OS you're on, but if you're using
MacOS9, there's another circumstance that may be causing this.
bob
>Hi Sue,
>
>So I've never personally seen the "file is damaged" any time except
>immediately upon opening a file. Perhaps there's a problem in some
>part of the file that's not being caught by the checksum (why, I
>don't know) and only triggers the error when that part is put into
>use. Do you notice that the error always ocurrs when you're doing
>something specific or accessing a specific record?
>
>The "unable to read the disk" error generally results from a system
>or disk problem. Have you had any other problems with your disk or
>other applications recently? Have you tried running scandisk and/or
>defragmenting it?
>
>IN any case you can still run Recover on your damaged file (always
>make a backup copy first), and then use the data from that to import
>into your earlier saved backup. Hopefully the Recover will take
>care of any problems that might be living in the data portion of the
>file.
>
>HTH,
>Matt
>
>At 12:40 PM 8/24/01 -0700, you wrote:
>>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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