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Pedro Perdomo-Miteff <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:18:13 -0430
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Hi Stephen,

No, is on a single Mac.
But there is something...

I had a Dropbox account and put a "symbolic link" of the DB on it, so i can
open it at home when I'm away from office.

Would be a problem?

Best




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Pedro Perdomo-Miteff, MD, MSc
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Medicine
Hospital Universitario de Caracas
Universidad Central de Venezuela
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On 26/07/10 11:01, "Stephen Wonfor" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Pedro
> 
> Sorry, missed the bit about no gap so corruption is not the issue here.  Don't
> think disk failure is too likely as the issue would be much greater - eg. no
> db at all.
> 
> So.  Are there other copies of the db that might have been written to?  Is the
> db on FMServer?
> 
> Stephen
> 
> ----------
> 
> "How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of
> making progress." - Niels Bohr
> 
> On Jul 26, 2010, at 9:22 AM, Pedro Perdomo-Miteff wrote:
> 
>> Thanks Stephen for your prompt and kind response.
>> 
>> I moved through the data as you suggested but can't find any trace of the
>> records. As I said before, there's not "gap" in record number.
>> 
>> Do you think that a disk failure would the culprit?
>> 
>> Best
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --------------------------------------------
>> Pedro Perdomo-Miteff, MD, MSc
>> Assistant Professor
>> Faculty of Medicine
>> Hospital Universitario de Caracas
>> Universidad Central de Venezuela
>> [log in to unmask]
>> [log in to unmask]
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 26/07/10 10:02, "Stephen Wonfor" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Pedro
>>> 
>>> The possibility exists that you may have corrupted indexes on those records.
>>> Typically they show up as "?" in all the fields.  If you move through the
>>> data
>>> in order of record creation you may run across them - you can't (as far as I
>>> know) actually search for them using FMP finds but you can stumble across
>>> them
>>> by going through the data manually.
>>> 
>>> If you do find them see http://fmdiff.com/fm/recordindex.html for help in
>>> sorting them out.
>>> 
>>> Stephen
>>> 
>>> ----
>>> 
>>> BELT  SANDER:  An electric sanding tool commonly used to convert minor
>>> touch-up jobs into major refinishing  jobs.  (---Attributed to the list at
>>> http://techtalk.parts-express.com/; Also claimed by others...)
>>> 
>>> On Jul 26, 2010, at 8:18 AM, Pedro Perdomo-Miteff wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Dear friends,
>>>> 
>>>> Looking at my DB last night I realize, WITH ORROR that 3 records created
>>>> this month was missed. Is a not very complex DB running without trouble for
>>>> the last couple of years.
>>>> 
>>>> Each record has creation date, incremental record number and client data.
>>>> 
>>>> There is not a ³gap² on creation dates. I canıt find the records searching
>>>> for date, record number or client name, as if the records were not ever
>>>> created. Iım sure that the records was created because I had printed a
>>>> recipe for each client.
>>>> 
>>>> Iım working on FM 10.0v3, OS X 10.5.8.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I would appreciate your comments and help. Please excuse me for my bad
>>>> English.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> --------------------------------------------
>>>> Pedro Perdomo-Miteff, MD, MSc
>>>> Assistant Professor
>>>> Faculty of Medicine
>>>> Hospital Universitario de Caracas
>>>> Universidad Central de Venezuela
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>>>> [log in to unmask]
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 

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