[Dxbase] [dxbase] More Recovering from disk corruption

[Kim Elmore]

Good news, Neal: your suggestion worked! All now seems well.

My latest disk failure was one of the most insidious I've seen. I was 
tipped off because I kept getting errors when I tried to backup my disk 
via a clone operation. I usually simply clone the whole thing so that 
restoring it is as simple as swapping out the bad disk, which I'll have 
to do anyway. But my clone jobs always failed at the same place. 
S.M.A.R.T. data revealed nothing noteworthy (one read failure), but I 
kept getting notices that I had to run chkdsk and when I did, clusters 
were reassigned.

But, everything seems to be fine, now.

Thanks again, Neal!

Kim N5OP


On 3/14/2015 9:10 PM, Neal Campbell wrote:
> The ldb file is just a "lock" saying that a program has the mdb database
> open. When you quit the program, it removes the ldb file.
>
> The stats are in the log itself.
>
> I would create a new log file, then quit DXBase, open up the DXBase Import
> program and import the old log into the newly created one. Then run DXBase
> with the new log and recalculate your statistics.
>
>
> Neal Campbell
> Abroham Neal LLC
>
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 10:06 PM, Kim Elmore cw_de_n5op at sbcglobal.net
> [dxbase] <dxbase at yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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>>
>> A thought: are all the stats saved in the .ldb file? If so, because I have
>> made no DXCC submissions since the last good backup, can I simply use (by
>> renaming) the old .ldb file, and then reinitialize the tables?
>>
>> Kim N5OP
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Kim Elmore, Ph.D. (Adj. Assoc. Prof., OU School of Meteorology, CCM, PP 
SEL/MEL/Glider, N5OP, 2nd Class Radiotelegraph, GROL)

/"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in 
practice, there is." //– Attributed to many people; it’s so true that it 
doesn’t matter who said it./