Joost, Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, no luck.
It seems to create an ever-increasing .si4 file, and I have to cancel the task. Mark On 14 June 2010 19:17, Joost 't Hart <joost.t.h...@planet.nl> wrote: > On 06/14/2010 07:03 PM, Mark Cooper wrote: > > Hi. > >> Hi, >> >> I have a small database that has become corrupted. Attempting a repair >> has left me with an empty (zero bytes) index (.si4) file. There >> appears to still be data remaining in the .sg4 and .sn4 files. >> > > Sad news. How did this happen? Can you reproduce it, or sheer bad-luck? > >> Is there any way to recreate the index file? >> > > I am not the expert here, Pascal may be able to help better, but notice > the following: > > When you open an old-format database (sn3, sg3, si3, etc), scid will > convert this database to the new format (s*4). This means a simple > rename of the sg and sn files. Interesting for you is that the si3 file > is deleted and re-generated from scratch... > > So you may be lucky with the following: > 1) Copy your sg4 and sn4 files to <try>.sg3 and <try>.sn3 > 2) Copy your (empty) si4 file to <try>.si3 > 3) Start scid and open database <try> > > If I read the code well, scid will immediately do the "conversion" based > on the file names, even without seeing what is inside the dbase files.... > > Good luck. > Joost. > >> Thanks, >> >> Mark >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate >> GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the >> lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo >> _______________________________________________ >> Scid-users mailing list >> Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users >> >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate > GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the > lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo > _______________________________________________ > Scid-users mailing list > Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
