Database lost all data V4RB

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 6/15/04 11:21 AM, "Cindy Brown" <cindy at kowhaiprogramming.com> wrote:

>> On 6/15/04 10:59 AM, "Cindy Brown" <cindy at kowhaiprogramming.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Cindy,
>> 
>>> I've just had a client send me their database which wasn't working. They
>>> have been using it on a PC. When I got their database I found that though
>>> the .dat file is 22.9MB and the .ind file is 9.8MB the database is actually
>>> almost empty. Just a few small records here and there. It seems that the
>>> database has lost almost all the data. They couldn't do that themselves as
>>> it would take days to delete everything by hand.
>>> 
>>> In the folder with the database there has also appeared some extra files:
>>> prf4F.tmp, prf41.tmp, prf75.tmp and also an SMFiles with no .??? Indication
>>> after it though it says that it is a .dat file.
>> 
>> Strange, this is not Valentina files. 100%
> 
> The Valentina file is called SMFiles. There is SMFiles.dat, SMFiles.vdb,
> SMFiles.ind and SMFiles.dat. In addition there is just an SMFiles file which
> has the Valentina logo on it but it doesn't have .dat or anything after it
> which I thought would be highly unusual on a PC.

May be that user have open Valentina db files using some other application
???



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Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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