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MikeDee
14th July 2001, 09:27.29 AM
Had a near death experience this week. Was fooling around with creating a FR1 differential (like the espeed dif in impact) with vba. I was in the middle of running a module and the pc locked up on me. No apparent reason just one of those window kinda lockups where you have to hit the power on/off.

Had a panic attack when I brought the db up and Access said that my db was an unrecognizable format. tried the repair db routine....no luck. My db was dead.

Lucky for me I had just made a backup on 7/2 and was able to get back in business without to much of a problem.

First time my db has blown up on me and if I didn't have that backup I would be starting over from scratch.

If you have stuff in your db that would be real hard to re-construct.....my advice is back'er up on a regular basis!!!!

Glen
14th July 2001, 10:04.57 AM
Good thing you did that Mike...Man, what to do if the thing was gone? BTW, are you still using the Orb Drive to back up?

MikeDee
14th July 2001, 11:31.01 AM
yep still using the orb drive for back ups and data storage

fred4now
14th July 2001, 12:26.03 PM
Glad to here you had everything backed up Mike. I always worry about crashing my main db so have put my master table in a separate db and just link to it. With all the stupid things I do, it's probably a good idea.