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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On Jul 26, 2010, at 9:48 AM, Pedro Perdomo-Miteff wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
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> No, is on a single Mac.
> But there is something...
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> 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.
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> Would be a problem?
>
> Best
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> 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
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>> 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
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>> "How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of
>> making progress." - Niels Bohr
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>> On Jul 26, 2010, at 9:22 AM, Pedro Perdomo-Miteff wrote:
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>>> 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
>>>
>>>
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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 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
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>>>> BELT SANDER: An electric sanding tool commonly used to convert minor
>>>> touch-up jobs into major refinishing jobs. (---Attributed to the list at
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>>>> 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 “gap” on creation dates. I can’t find the records searching
>>>>> for date, record number or client name, as if the records were not ever
>>>>> created. I’m sure that the records was created because I had printed a
>>>>> recipe for each client.
>>>>>
>>>>> I’m 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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