[Mnebase] Emergency ebase help

[Barry Madore]

Adrienne:

The official and safest method for dealing with this situation is to  
trash the version of ebase with the files that are damaged and use  
your latest backup.  It is difficult to know what may have happened  
with the force quit.  The real concern is with the data files (log. 
200, contacts.200, contactlocation.200, etc.).  If the database was in  
the process of doing something with your data files at the time of the  
crash (a find, a report, adding info, etc.), the data could be damaged  
and cause data integrity problems moving forward-- problems you may  
not even recognize until it's too late.

So, if you haven't done a ton of work on the database since your last  
backup, that's the way to go.

If you have done a ton of work, it may make sense for you to run the  
recover process and see if you can get ebase back up and running with  
the current files.  I'd wouldn't advise you to use the database  
permanently after doing so.  If you are able to get it running using  
FileMaker's recovery process, I'd advise you to use the database  
mostly to do some queries to retrieve data you have added/changed in  
the last month to help you re-construct these changes in your backup.

And, I'd advise more frequent backups.  I'm a big believer in the at- 
least once a day backup.  This would eliminate future recurrence of  
the stress you are now facing...

-barry


On Jan 26, 2009, at 1:13 PM, Adrienne Dorn wrote:

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>
>
> Can anyone help me with this?
>
> Someone was working in ebase when it froze. She force quit it and  
> now when we try to open ebase back up, it says “Log.200 (or Contacts. 
> 200) is damaged and cannot be opened. Use the recover command to  
> recover this file”
>
> We have a backup copy, but it’s from over a month ago. Anyone have  
> suggestions on what to do here?
>
> Thanks so much,
>
> Adrienne
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