I have often volunteered to help my son and daughter's school out with their computers. Several years ago they had someone design a FMP program that keeps track of their students. It has been working fine until right before summer break.

Apparently, the program freezes a lot. Often after freezing it can't find part of the database and they have to do a recovery (they have done this several times). Now a couple of their students "have a blank file." They reentered them but they can't get rid of the blank ones. They tried deleting and omitting ---- you can still see the blank files by doing a search on the name -- then its says they can't delete them because the file is corrupted.

I don't know anything about FMP or databases in general. I am looking for someone to take a look at the files to see if there is a quick fix which would cost little or no money -- they are a small school with very little money for technology.

Unfortunately, I need to try to get this problem solved ASAP as school starts very soon. I would be happy to email the files to someone who wants to take a look.

Thanks, Tom Maurer

I going to take a wild guess here and say I bet you don't have clean backup copy of this file.

I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but IMHO your file has become corrupt. If you have a clean backup copy, then import your data into it.

If you don't, then consider this an opportunity to make all of those changes everyone has wanted in a NEW file. While you are creating the new file, be sure and make backups as you progress by saving "NON" crashed copies Often.

For more information about Corruption, do a search of the Forums and you will find an abundance of thread regarding it.

HTH

Lee

The Recover command recovers the DATA from the file -- it does not fix up the file structure itself. The intention is to revover the data them import it into a known-good clone of the original file. Then dump the damaged copy.