A client has run some sort of anti-virus program (or something) & deleted all the ".dat" files of their DBISAM database.

They have a back up policy, which is to back up the contents of the database folder every day & after 1 week throw away backups older than 1 week. I had left the system being told there was a "good back up system in place" ... its a big organisation so I believed them (last time I will do that)

As the use of the system is seasonal, the last data was entered in mid-September, they have now returned to use it again and "its not working"

... I have .idx files and .blb files, but the .dat files (and only those ...) are gone.

I know this is a hopeless situation, but I wonder whether there is anything I can do, for example to extract data from the blb files.

Adam

Adam


>I know this is a hopeless situation, but I wonder whether there is anything I can do, for example to extract data from the blb files.

Probably not - I'd email or phone Tim directly rather than waiting on a response here.

Forlone hope - find an undelete program (mine is fru.exe or FreeUndelete) and pray.

Roy Lambert

Adam,

<< I know this is a hopeless situation, but I wonder whether there is
anything I can do, for example to extract data from the blb files. >>

No, but you may be able to use an undelete utility, like Roy suggested.  The
key is to make sure that you stop any disk activity on the affected disk
*immediately*.  Failure to do so could cause all of the deleted files to
become unrecoverable as the space is re-used by the file system.

--
Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com