Recovering a corrupted FM5 file

[SteveB]

A question for the experts: If a file is corrupted, and you use the recover command should you then export the data records to a backup copy of your solution? Could some of the layouts also be corrupted? Most importantly, how does one handle recovering a corrupted file if you are doing a kiosk solution?

[Chuck]

The proceedure I use regarding recovery is to keep a backup set of clones of all the files (which I replace whenever I make any changes to the database structure) and after a recover, import the recovered data into these files. I usually also then save a compressed copy of the files. The only thing to be careful of here is any auto-enter serial numbers, which may have to be reset in the new data files to match what they were in the recovered file.

I don't think that recovering files from a kiosk solution should be any different from recovering files from a non-bundled solution.

Chuck