[Dxbase] database problems

[Ron Stordahl]

The *.mdb data bases can contain a lot of deadwood.  If you will run the 
DXB Utility and select the DXB Database you can compress the databases 
to the same or perhaps nearly the same sizes.

I also have a 'Save' folder in my DXBase2006 directory and regularly 
copy N5IN.mdb and refdata.mdb to it in case I ever have to restore, and 
I have had to on occasion.  Simply copying them back to the main is all 
you have to do.  Thus before making any significant changes to refdata 
or just to preserve important Q's you should end DXBase and copy these 
two files to the 'Save' folder in case you have to restore them.

Ron

Dave wrote:
> I maintain DxBase 2006 on 2 computers, they are both current. All records are the same on both. My problem is this I messed up my prefixes on one computer (by adding yu6 as yu) now I can't get the prefix data base to initialize corretly. No problem i'll just copy my backup database (k4em) from my backup computer to this computer. Which I have done at 30 times over the years and never had a problem.
>
> The issue is this; the k4em.mdb database file on one computer is 78mb and the other one (that is working fine) is only 22mb. Again all qso records are the same; in fact I reloaded dxbase 2006 on this computer about one month ago and simply copied my backup k4em.mdb file (22mb) to the new dxbase program I just installed and everything is working. Or was until I messed up the yu prefix.
>
> I looked back at some backup databases on a cdrom and they are all around 20mb or so which seems to match one computer.
>
> Both computers run WinXP pro. Again both programs (except for the messed up databse) are EXACTLY the same; meaning both are configured the same. One version does not have any different setups, configurations or anything that is different between the two.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Dave
> k4em
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