Thanks for telling me how to fix the system clock. It worked. Now, does anyone know someone in the Missoula area who can help me with my "recovered" data problem?
>Karin, > >Clearly the problem is your system clock. Computers need to know what time >it is, and your frozen computer from a couple of days ago "forgot" the >current date. > >I'm guessing you are using a Mac. Go to the control panels, find Date and >time, and reset the date and time to current. > >This will not solve the problems that may have been introduced by your >recover process. But at least you will have the correct date in your >computer. > >To solve the bigger problems, it looks like you need someone knowledgeable >to some into your office to determine how to best protect your data >investment. I think there are local people on this list that can help. > >Marshall > >On 8/27/56 6:54 AM, "Missoula Urban Demonstration Project" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello out there. It's looking pretty bad here. My computer froze a > > couple days ago when I overloaded it. Today my database is acting > > very weird. I went to enter a payment, and the date came up as 1957. > > Then I went to search for our current members, and suddenly everyone > > was current. There were no grace or lapsed members. I have saved my > > database on disk, but I'm not quite sure what to do now. > > Unfortunately, when I inherited the system in September, nobody told > > me not to click ebase windows off with the little boxes and I had no > > idea I should never "recover," so I did that routine a few times > > before I found out that's forbidden. In other words, I'm worried that > > my back up disk is tainted too because little things were starting to > > seem weird earlier, like I would enter a business on the business > > line and a contact person on the top line, but whenever I did a > > search for the business, it wouldn't come up--finally I had to enter > > the business on the top line. I was praying that I just didn't know > > how to use the system correctly. Now there's no ignoring > > it--everything is starting to go haywire. Does anyone have any really > > helpful advice for me? I could certainly use some! > > Karin Schalm > > Director > > Missoula Urban Demonstration Project > > 629 Phillips Street > > Missoula, MT 59802 > > (406)721-7513 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ------------------ > > Reminder to each recipient: To change your list account preferences, go to > > http://email.sparklist.com/scripts/lyris.pl?enter=support and >enter the email > > address you used to subscribe to the ebase support list:: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ebase - Relationship Management for Nonprofits, http://www.ebase.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > TechRocks - Giving the Good Guys the Edge - http://www.techrocks.org >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Marshall Mayer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Chief Executive Officer http://www.techrocks.org > TechRocks phone: 415.291.9535 > 633 Battery Street - Suite 110 mobile: 415.722.7171 > San Francisco, CA 94111-1812 USA eFax: 415.276.4195 >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >ebase� - Relationship Management for Nonprofits - http://www.ebase.org >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >------------------ >Reminder to each recipient: To change your list account preferences, go to >http://email.sparklist.com/scripts/lyris.pl?enter=support and enter >the email address you used to subscribe to the ebase support list:: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > ebase - Relationship Management for Nonprofits, http://www.ebase.org >--------------------------------------------------------------------- Karin Schalm Director Missoula Urban Demonstration Project 629 Phillips Street Missoula, MT 59802 (406)721-7513 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------ Reminder to each recipient: To change your list account preferences, go to http://email.sparklist.com/scripts/lyris.pl?enter=support and enter the email address you used to subscribe to the ebase support list:: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- ebase - Relationship Management for Nonprofits, http://www.ebase.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------
