Re: Nutshell Plus II

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On Feb 6, 12:18*pm, Nevada6372 <u... (AT) example (DOT) net> wrote:

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I have a client that is using an old database called, Nutshell Plus II.
The copyrights are from Claris Corp, 1989, and IRIS software in 1990.
The database files have a '.db' extension to them. *In the process of
moving the DOS-based database to a Windows machine where it could be
backed up and possibly upgraded to a newer database, it became
corrupted.

What do you mean "moving ..."?
Did you:
copy all the files from DOS machine to Windows machine?
remove the hard drive from DOS machine and install in the Windows
machine
upgrade the DOS machine to Windows?

All without first making a secure copy of files you cannot repair?

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*As dumbfounded as I was that this happened,

Depends on what you did as to whether this was a valid dumbfounding
moment.

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it was more
surprising that there was no backup, and that the customer has about 90%
of his data in this database.

Again, you did not check for a backup as step zero?? Hope you have
Insurance 'cause he should sue you.

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*The utilities that came with the
software, NUTUTILS, did nothing to help the matter. *I was able to find
an older version of the database, about 8 months old, but at least it
was something. *Does anyone know if there is a utility that can repair
this database? *Is it possible to upgrade this database to a version
that would bring it into the 21st Century? *I did some research and
found that Nutshell was closely related to the earliest versions of
Filemaker, though I believe it was only for the MAC. *Do you think an
old version of Filemaker and/or a database such as dBase III would be
able to import/convert the data from Nutshell? *Any help would be
appreciated. *Thanks in advance.

Eric

Sorry I know nothing about Nutshell.

At this point, if I was brought in, I'd see what data I could reverse
engineer out of the files. The question is: is reentering 8months of
data possible, and if so, is it more or less costly than paying
someone that knows what they are doing to try to recover the missing
data.

I know that's not much help for you, but hopefully this serves as a
lesson learned for others BEFORE they start a project like this.

Ed

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