For a second time I found myself trying to recover a corrupted Base file
- after an experience identical to a post on this list that went unanswered:
I was working with a form on a Base file. I saved it. I tried
opening the file. Instead of opening, I was prompted by a dialogue
entitled "Filter options". How could I restore data, querys and
forms from these file?
The Base file archive [entries with no "." are are folders; all others
are text/xml files] seems clean:
Configurations2
database
backup.
data.
log.
properties.
script.
forms
Obj22
Configurations2
floater
images
Bitmaps
menubar
popupmenu
progressbar
statusbar
toolbar
content.xml
settings.xml
styles.xml
META-INF
manifest.xml
reports
content.xml
mimetype
settings.xml
Moreover, the individual text and xml files inside the database all seem
readable (with Firefox useful for formatting the xml files). So the
database looks recoverable, with effort.
However, as I was manually reconstructing it, it occurred to me that as:
(a) the problem is apparently not uncommon, and
(b) reconstruction/recovery is possible, if manually tedious,
that I should put a recovery tool on my to-do list. But the next
thought is that that has probably occurred to lots of other people, and
a quick search confirms it:
<http://www.openofficerecovery.com/base-odb-recovery.html>
<http://www.nucleustechnologies.com/openoffice-base-recovery.html>
<http://www.kerneldatarecovery.com/openoffice-odb-repair.html>
Anyone have experience with these tools? - recommendations?
John Kaufmann
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