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Martin Trautmann <t-use [at] gmx.net> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I finally managed to download FMP9 trial.
>
> First results are not that impressive: FMP9 complained that some of my
> major databases where broken and needed recovery.
>
> They where closed properly with earlier FMP versions which never
> complained. Which one does suck now - FMP9 or the others?
>
> - Martin

FM 9 does more consistency checking when opening files than the former
versions did.

So this indicates problems with your files not with FM 9.

Jens

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Martin Trautmann <t-use [at] gmx.net> writes:

> On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:18:09 +0200, Jens Teich wrote:
>> FM 9 does more consistency checking when opening files than the former
>> versions did.
>>
>> So this indicates problems with your files not with FM 9.
>
> So the former versions suck when they do not find those problems?

Definitely yes.

> [snip]
>
> BTW: I may confirm that the PDF bug from FMP7/8/8.5 is fixed finally in
> FMP9 (a 30 MB PDF, 30 pages, now takes 300 KB only).

Yes they worked on this too.


Jens

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On Jul 25, 1:00 am, Martin Trautmann <t-... [at] gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I finally managed to download FMP9 trial.
>
> First results are not that impressive: FMP9 complained that some of my
> major databases where broken and needed recovery.
>
> They where closed properly with earlier FMP versions which never
> complained. Which one does suck now - FMP9 or the others?
>
> - Martin

Recovery is not needed. The file isn't 'broken' just not optimized.
Simply save a compacted version of the database in whatever Pre-9
version of FM you were using and then open it in 9.

Word on the street is that you shouldn't actually ever use a recovered
database, other than to pull your data out to load into a backup.

What obstacles are you having to scripting the import of several
tables? It's not very difficult.

G

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