When do Recover is really needed?

[AnFrusch@pepp]

Hello All,

I have read this note about filemaker maintenance somewhere:

"The Recover command aggressively attempts to correct a file so you can open

it and recover your data. To do this, the Recover process may delete corrupt

fields, layouts, layout objects, scripts, and data. For this reason, you

should only use the Recover command when you cannot open a file. Do not use

this command for regular file maintenance"

I really don't know what can be considered 'regular maintenance' at this point.

Maybe I can create a compacted copy, or create an empty clone and import only data from the original file..

I don't know.

Does anybody can suggest a procedure to maintain a filemaker 7 file w/out recover it?

thank you.

[gdurniak]

recover is the most mis-understood utility ever written, used to restore DATA from a damaged file

for more info, see here: http://www.filemaker.com/ti/102102.html

and here: http://masdevelopment.com:3455/1/57?view=print