corrupted databases - we need a tool!

[michael geary]

Hi Folks,

I am a big fan of Valentina, and as long as things go smoothly, I don't 
have any problems. BUT, I think we need some tools to repair/rebuild 
databases when they go bad.

Using the Valentina App (OS X) I just deleted 1000000 records from a 
table, emptying it. I then closed the DB and tried to re-open it. 
Nothing. It is broken. Nothing I can do at all.

The database is well over 300 MB, so it's not terribly practical for me 
to store an XML dump on a frequent basis. Fortunately, I'm not really 
losing any data with this corruption, because I can reconstruct the DB 
from other sources, but I am losing time.

This is not the first time this has happened. Not at all. When things 
are good, they are very good. But when things are bad, they are very 
bad.

Has anyone had similar experiences? I really wish I didn't have to go 
through this.

michael geary