Brian E. Blandford 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"!)
BEB
Is there any chance that the save made a backup copy or changed the
name? Use locate {file name} or find {file name} to see if there is a
backup or old copy of the database around.
Windows Restore wouldn't help here as it isn't a Restore issue. This is
a case for backups. Make backups of important data before messing with
the structure.
Even in Windows, this may have lost all the data as this isn't even a
delete issue where the file would be in the Undelete list.
Good luck.
--
Robin Laing
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