Windows XP revisited

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Luke Jenner (Tue, 26 Apr 2005 16:00:12 -0800):

> Ok, Sorry I dropped off on this subject. I lost internet at home, and
> so didn't have the list.
>
> Ok, I purchased filePro 5.0 full development, more specifically
> 5.0.14DN9.
>
>  I pulled the hard drive out of the old machine, which was running
> Windows 98, and 3.0 version of filePro. I placed the hard drive in my
> machine at home, which is running Windows XP Professional and
> installed the new version of filePro on it. I then copied the data off
> of the old drive, into the filepro folder on the new drive. I then try
> to run the file thru IUA, and when I pull up a record, the screen has
> the data in the wrong field, and spread in between multiple fields.
> The data lines up about 5 times out of the 500 records that exist.

(Since you physically moved the hard drive to the new machine, I will
assume that the copy did not involve something like ftp, which will
corrupt the key/data files if you don't use binary mode.)

It sounds like you didn't copy a good map file.  Assuming that the
map was good to begin with, I don't know how a simple copy from one
folder to another would corrupt it.

Are you absolutely certain that the data was good to begin with?

> I then made a stupid mistake, and installed the new version onto the
> old machine, and now I can't even pull up the data correctly there. It
> shows up the same. I have backup copies of the data, but now I can't
> access it on any machine.

What happens?  What format are the backups in, and how, exactly, does
it fail when you try to access them?

> I'd be willing to retype it into the new
> version, if I could just now get it to load correctly on the old
> machine. Any suggestion? If anybody could look at it, its a small
> file, maybe 300k, I'd be willing to email it to them.

Assuming that the data itself hasn't been corrupted somewhere along
the line, you need to determine the proper field layout, and manually
edit the map to match.

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