Dotan Cohen wrote:
On 23/10/06, Brian E. Blandford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks for your suggestions. I think the solutions may be beyond my
competence, and in that we're talking about a fairly small number of
records (65) it might in the end be less time-consuming to re-enter
everything - but I don't want the same thing to happen again. Anyone got
any suggestions what I did wrong?
After I sent my first email I had a look at the forums, and I found I'm
not the only one to have lost things in Base:
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=29624
Is there a OOo Base Bermuda Triangle?
BEB
That's rather scary. I would not use a tool that was known as losing
data.
For one thing, you _must_ always backup. I don't want to tell you of
all the hard-disk failures, malware, and accidents (by far the most
common form of data loss) that I've heard of. I myself have been saved
more than once by a good backup, and I'm not much more than your
everyday power user.
Dotan Cohen
http://slashedot.org
http://technology-sleuth.com/long_answer/what_are_the_advantages_of_lcd_monitors.html
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You're really going to think me stupid now.
I thought I did have most of the records backed up from the last time
that I made a back-up DVD. But I discovered that somehow or other all my
directories had been saved as files - which are of course un-openable.
The only thing I can think of to explain that is that I had dragged the
directories into the wrong pane in K3b.
C'est la vie!
I've made a new back-up DVD, and checked the directories are directories
and all the files can be opened from inside them.
BEB
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