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From: "Leif B. Kristensen" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Corruption Problems
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2001 08:40:12 +0100
References: <000801c162a5$080d2690$682e1f3f@custom>
In-Reply-To: <000801c162a5$080d2690$682e1f3f@custom>


On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 23:15:45 -0800, "Cheri Casper"
<> wrote:

>Re my problems with MRL & MPL -- I went to Windows Explorer and looked
>at the problem dataset. Under the column "file type," instead of a
>designation as "DBF" or "FPT," it is showing "Active Server Document."
>
>I have updated my virus definitions and run a system scan and things
>are coming up clean.
>
>Advice? Should I just delete this database and start over? It is
>salvageable and fixable?

Cheri,
the file descriptions that come up under Windows Explorer are
inessential to TMG. They are just showing which application that will
open these files by default, that is, if you double-click one of the
.dbf or .fpt files, some application that's assumed to handle "Active
Server Documents" will try to open it. However, TMG couldn't care less
about this file association. It reads those files just as it always
have.

One word of caution, though: _Don't_ try to double-click one of those
files from Explorer. The program that has associated those extensions
with your TMG database files may want to rebuild them, thus rendering
them unreadable to TMG. If you think that's what happened, then you
should hand your database over to the Wholly Genes Support, which I'm
certain will be able to repair it.

regards,
--
Leif Biberg Kristensen
http://hjem.sol.no/leifkris/index.html

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