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Appendix A: Recovering damaged files
Power failures, hardware problems, and other factors can damage a
FileMaker Pro file. If a file is damaged, you can use the FileMaker Pro
recovery feature. FileMaker Pro attempts to repair and salvage as much of
the information in the file as possible, and then creates a recovered file. You
can open and use a recovered file just like any other FileMaker Pro file.
Important Before you begin, be sure you have enough disk space for the
recovered file. If there isn’t enough space, the recovered file won’t
be usable.
To recover a damaged file:
1. Be sure the damaged file is closed.
2. Choose Recover from the File menu.
3. In the Open Damaged File dialog box, select the damaged file, and
then click Open.
In the Name Recovered File dialog box, FileMaker Pro adds
Recovered to the filename (which might be truncated).
4. If you want to rename the file, for Name new recovered file, type
a name.
5. Click Save.
A status message tells you about the recovery process. A second
message reports the success of the recovery—how many bytes were
salvaged, the number of records and values skipped, and the number
of lost field definitions that were rebuilt.
6. Click OK.
Keep these points in mind:
1 To ensure you always have a file that’s up to date, make frequent backup
copies of your files, and don’t write over the most recent copies.
1 If a file is severely damaged, you might not be able to recover it.
A file can grow or shrink in size. A file can grow if the indexes were
damaged and repaired. A file can shrink when data deleted by the user,
like a paragraph, has finally been deleted from the file.
Choose FileMaker Help Index from the Help menu, and then type:
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