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 >> [log in to unmask] >> [log in to unmask] >> >> >> >>