Thanks a lot Stephen and Steve,
It seems that somehow Dropbox is creating troubles.
I'm going to delete the "Symbolic link" from it an see..
But I'm panicked also :(
Best regards,
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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 12:07, "Stephen Wonfor" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Pedro
>
> Not sure about Dropbox, though I see Steve Cassidy has some good points. I
> can add that some years ago we were working on a set of databases that were
> sent up from Houston, Texas to Calgary, Alberta. They sent us 24 of the 25
> files. Filemaker "found" the missing file, over the network, running back on
> an FMServer in Houston and happily linked to it. We purged data from a number
> of the db's for testing. We got a panicked call from Texas... Thanks
> goodness for hourly backups! Maybe something like that can occur with
> DropBox.
>
> Stephen
>
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>
> "We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average
> star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very
> special." ----Stephen Hawking
>
>
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> On Jul 26, 2010, at 9:48 AM, Pedro Perdomo-Miteff wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --------------------------------------------
>> 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:
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>>> 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
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>>>> On 26/07/10 10:02, "Stephen Wonfor" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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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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>>>>>>
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