I have recently upgraded from Server 7 to Server 8 on W@K Server.
All seems to be fine except 1 of my hosted databases won't open. Trying
to force it to open changes the status to checking and then back to
closed. I have set max DB's to host well in excess of the number I am
hosing but cannot find why this file (which opened fine in V7) should
decide not to open.
Any ideas really appreciated.

TIA
Colin Bannister

In article <1129240305.470160.216230 (AT) g44g2000cwa (DOT) googlegroups.com>,
<csbannister (AT) pif (DOT) co.uk> wrote:


Did you try running a "recover" on the file?

Or a "save a copy as" and open the copy?

I've not seen this problem here (I run server under OSX), but it sounds
like file corruption to me...

- Steve

In article <141020051227378372%maser (AT) umich (DOT) edu>, maser (AT) umich (DOT) edu says...
Is the file set to be shared/multiuser? The server won't automatically
share single user files. (I think there's an option to force it to host
files set to single user -- at least there used to be in 5/6. Not sure
offhand if it still exists or where it is in 7/8.

-dave

42 wrote:
Thanks for the advice guys. I did run recovery on the file and it
opened fine. Seems strange there was no problem with V7.
Thanks Again
Colin Bannister

I hope you did the 'recovery' the right way : ie take an empty clone of
the file and reimport the data 'recovered'. Never use directly the
recovered file as such.
Remi-Noel

A lot of folks around here will say that isn't the right way either.

They will say the only right way to do a recover is to export all the
data from the recovered file as text, then re-import it into a
non-recovered backup of the file from before it went south.

Me, I have several recovered files from the old days that haven't bit
me yet...I'm hoping that in transferring to v8 from v5 they will be
baptized and free from sin.