On 20/10/06, Brian E. Blandford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Panic drives me to re-subscribe! I was working on my CD collection data-base. I was increasing the permitted number of characters in one of the fields in the table (I had discovered increasing the permitted characters in a form via its controls doesn't work, which is why I was editing the table) I got the usual message when exiting "Do you want to save the changes?", clicked to save - and then found next time I tried to open the data base all the data had gone. The fields were there, but blank, waiting for me to input data for record 1. Is it gone for good? Or is there any way to restore the data? (How I wish Linux has a similar facility to Windows XP "restore"!)
Windows restore will restore the system to a "point" in the past, it won't restore user's files. In any case, Linux has rsync, which you can use to back up your data. First things first, unmount the drive! What filesystem are you on? If it's ext2/3 (it probably is) then you had better take it to a professional. If it's FATx then hit google, there are many solutions available for that insecure filesystem. If it's JFS or Reiser, then you might want to ask on those filesystem's mailing lists- recovery may stil be possible. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com/what_is/linux.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
