I just completed a back-up of my hard drive (on on Macintosh 8.6, using FileMaker 4.0).

Then when I tried to open my database, up popped a dialog box: "The access privileges in this file have b een damaged or possibly tampered with."

Huh? I"ve never set any access privilege, never set a password.

I've tried running DiskWarrior and Norton. I've tried replacing the file with the one from the backup. I've tried trashing my Filemaker preferences.

But I can't access my database...and without that, I'm out of business!

Can anyone help?

Thanks,

Dan O'Day

[email protected]

Several hours after posting the previous message, the "recover" feature, amazingly, seems to have restored my files.

Maybe this will help someone else.....

Thanks,

Dan O'Day

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Originally posted by danoday:

Several hours after posting the previous message, the "recover" feature, amazingly, seems to have restored my files.

Maybe this will help someone else.....

Thanks,

Dan O'Day

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Do not work with Recovered file yet!

Now, export data in 2 formats (one like TAB delimited text file) from FileMaker files and save separately empty Clones of working files.

If everything went smoothly import data back into Clone and rename the file like it was before.

Do last check, if everything is fine and work with this new file.

Reason to do this complicated procedure is simple. In recovered file can still exist some fragment with error and it can show again and unfortunately with not so simple recovery.

Also do rotating back up regularly! Only business without backups will suffer with simple data loss.

Remember, there are only 2 kind of files:

1. backed up

2. not lost (destroyed) yet

IMHO -- you received serious warning. And for now you are very lucky person!