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- Path: sparky!uunet!dcatlas!joet
- From: joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott)
- Subject: Re: Paradox -- O Woe is Me!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.163841.4099@dcatlas.dot.gov>
- Organization: U.S Dept. of Transportation
- References: <5233@news.duke.edu> <exuptr.506.716166740@exu.ericsson.se>
- Distribution: comp.databases
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 16:38:41 GMT
- Lines: 38
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- exuptr@exu.ericsson.se (exuptr@exu.ericsson.se) writes:
-
- >In article <5233@news.duke.edu> maria@acpub.duke.edu (Maria Spicer) writes:
- >>From: maria@acpub.duke.edu (Maria Spicer)
- >>Subject: Paradox -- O Woe is Me!
- >>Date: 10 Sep 92 21:39:58 GMT
-
-
- >>And so begins my Paradox nightmare...
-
- ...lots of grief deleted...
-
- >I think your best bet is going to be re-modifying the table structure to
- >exactly match what you had before the goof.
-
- Agreed. Do you have an even older backup containing the old structure?
- Do you have any printouts of it?
-
- >Assuming you don't remember exactly what that was (fair assumption, i
- >think), you might try undeleting in your data directories, because paradox
- >makes a temporary table when you do restructures, and it might still be
- >intact even though the "real table" is not. Longshot, but worth a try.
-
- Ditto. You may need to play around with RENaming a lot of files first to
- get this to work.
-
- >Last but not least, call Borland tech support. They may actually be able to
- >help you recover the reports / forms. I'm assuming you cannot edit them,
- >either.
-
- Not so sure.
-
- >Good luck.
-
- Very definitely.
-
- -JTT
-
-