Database Corrupt ???

[jjewell]

New one on me. In attempting to open a clients database, I get, "Database User Error :-6
Invalid DB address

Can anyone tell me if this is corrupt, or suggest a way to recover, or, is it Bye bye database forever ?:eek:

[Matthew D. Hoedeman]

Well, I assume that you have tried to open it by searching for it? OR, are they using a NEWER version than you? Can THEY open it?

[craiger_ny]

I can't remember the files I delete when this happened it has been so long since I've used Datapage. May try killing the k01 files. Look for a bunch of the same file types and kill them (save 'em in case I am wrong).

[Matthew D. Hoedeman]

VISTA.TAF and LOCKMGR.DBL might be the files you are thinking of.

[pniven]

DELETE ALL FILES IN THE DATABASE DIRECTORY WITH THE FOLLOWING EXTENSIONS

.dbl
.dbu
.dbx
.log
.taf
you will be left with 8 files which have the following extentions.
.k01
.k02
.d01
.d02
.d03
.d04
.d05
.dbd

[craiger_ny]

That sounds right, good thing you didn't go with my advise lol

[jjewell]

Thanks for your valiant efforts guys...it seems they are shot.

Must get to cause of this though. I have very rarely seen this kind of corruption, hard to pin point it, thats for sure. I trudge on...glad its not my database...heheh

[craiger_ny]

I had a database corruption that was never recovered from. Sent it to B&S and everything. They couldn't get it figured out either. I basically lost it. Good luck, I hope that is not the case here.

[Matthew D. Hoedeman]

Mine gets backed up every day.