Message when a file is corrupted

[QuinTech]

First, a complaint: Why, when i search for "corrupt and must be recovered" on FMI's knowledge base, should i get pages and pages of results that have nothing to do with anything? I know it's been said before, but AAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH!!

Now, my question: I am trying to write up a manual and am looking for the exact wording of the message i will paraphrase here: "[FILENAME] is corrupt and must be recovered. Please select Recover from the File menu." (FMP 6) If anybody has that handy, please post it, for i will soon be forced to open my valuable .fp5 files and then kill the power in the hopes that will corrupt something.

TIA,

Jerry

[Lee Smith]

Sorry Jerry, I'm not going to ruin any of my files to verify this, but in the Error codes it shows this:

805 File is damaged; use Recover command

HTH

Lee

[SteveB]

"Filename.FP5 is damaged and cannot be opened.

Use the Recover command to recover this file."

(I always keep a bad file or two around for testing puposes in a separate folder).

Steve

[Lee Smith]

Hi Steve,

(I always keep a bad file or two around for testing puposes in a separate folder).

What's the name of the folder, Time-Out.

Lee

[QuinTech]

Thanks, guys.

[QuinTech]

Still on this subject... Steve, i read a post of yours from a long time ago about trapping for 805 errors. Were you ever able to figure out a way of doing that?

I've read in another post about an idea of using a global field in each file to which "1" or some other flag is written upon a proper shutdown. Then a test for IsEmpty ( relationshgip::flagField ) will show whether or not the file is corrupt. I have enough files that i do not look forward to the propsect of creating relationships to each of them from my opener file for this purpose, and i hope there's another way.

TIA,

Jerry

[SteveB]

Jerry, FM ignores the error code when the file is corrupt and puts up its standard error message (as I remember it). I could never trap it, and gave up. But I would sure like to be able to prevent the message from showing up.

Steve