[DXBase] computer locked up lost data

[Jack]

David,

Take a look in the DXbase help file under Database Safeguards, Database
Size.  It explains everything.

Regards,
Courtney

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Robbins" <w4idx@mindspring.com>
To: <dxbase@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 7:54 PM
Subject: [DXBase] computer locked up lost data


> My computer locked up while I had DXbase 2002 up and running.  I had to
> shut off the computer and bring it back up.  This is not the first time
> that has happened, and I knew that the next time I brought up DXbase, I
> would have to initialize tables.  I did bring the program back up and got
> the message that I needed to initialize tables.  I did, but got an error
> message "no current record".  All my qso's are there, but the summary
> tables are empty.  I created a new database and imported my qso's into the
> new log and initialized the tables.  Everything looks fine.  But, I was
> looking at the file sizes and the new database is 8 megs and the old one
is
> 20 megs.  all 15K qsos are in both files.  What did I lose?
>
> Any way to fix the old file?
>
> Thanks & 73
>
> David
> W4IDX
>
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