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CHAPTER 16 TESTING AND FIXING A FOLDER
INTRODUCTION THE FOLDER FIX...
As a genealogical information manager, GIM has a lot of
relationships to keep track of: parents and children within
families, multiple marriages, source and research notes and
all the rest. For the most part, GIM does a good job of
keeping track of all of these relationships.
The purpose of the folder check (described in Chapter 3) is to
double check the integrity of these relationships. If the
folder check runs without reporting any errors, then your
folder is clean.
However, for one reason or another, you may find that an error
or two has crept into your folder -- that is, you may find
that the folder check reports an error or a warning in the
folder. When this happens, the folder has become corrupted,
and it is necessary to fix the folder.
This chapter will explain how this is accomplished, including
an overview of the Fix Folder function in the Utilities Area.
SOURCES OF FOLDER CORRUPTION...
When the folder check reports an error in your folder, that
error can have been caused by any number of things. The most
likely suspect is a software error in your copy GIM, and so
you should report any such errors to the GIM Authors --
especially if you can reproduce them consistently -- so that
they can be corrected at once.
Other less likely sources of folder corruption include hard
disk failures. If you suspect such a thing, you should run
CHKDSK (see your DOS manual for details); if there are any
problems with your hard disk, then CHKDSK will report them,
and CHKDSK /F will attempt to fix them. If CHKDSK reports a
clean hard disk, then the problem is definitely with the GIM
software.
RESTORING BACKUPS...
Your first remedy, if you encounter a folder check error, is
to restore your folder backup and re-enter your data. Your
folder backup is guaranteed to be a clean set of data. To do
this, press control-F4 from the Folder Area.
If you do this, and you re-enter your data, and the error
persists, then it is definitely a repeatable software error,
and we want to know about it.
FIX FOLDER...
Your second remedy is to run the Fix Folder function described
below. This will attempt to fix several known and possible
errors, but it doesn't fix them all. (When we find new things
that Fix Folder needs to correct, we enhance its ability to
identify and resolve folder errors, but some problems remain
unidentified.)
SEND US YOUR FOLDER...
If all else fails, send us your folder, and we'll take care of
it. We have some tools at our disposal to fix recalcitrant
folders. Naturally, if you can send us some information about
how your folder got into the state it's in, that would help us
to prevent such things in the future. We'll be happy to fix
your folder and send it back to you with a new copy of GIM,
which will prevent any such errors in the future.
PERFORMING FIX FOLDER...
To run the Fix Folder function, use the following procedure:
First, enter the Utilities Area by pressing F5 from the Multi
Area.
Next, press F4 to activate the Fix Folder function.
The Fix Folder function will then proceed automatically to fix
whatever folder errors it can.
The result of a Fix Folder operation looks much like the
folder check. The difference is that if it is successfully
able to fix the folder errors, it WILL NOT report them as
errors, but will instead proceed to silently fix them. If the
Fix Folder function reports errors in your folder, that means
that it is unable to fix that error, and you need to try one
of the other two methods (described above) for resolved your
folder errors.