UNABLE TO ACCESS FILE DUE TO !filename MISSING (AREV Specific)
At 21 OCT 1999 10:17:11PM John Drake wrote:
We are using Advanced Revelation 2.1 and have encountered a problem with a file that had indexed fields. Somehow the file !filename, which holds the index information for the fields in the file, got deleted. Since then, we cannot access the data in the file. We can't do a record copy, file copy, or even list the file. We tried to rebuild the indexes, but without the !filename file, it would not work. We finally deleted the indexes, but still cannot access the file. We keep receiving messages such as: FS210 'The index file for "!filename" is not available'. Does anyone know of a work-around or solution to enable accessing the data in the file. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated. Thanks.
At 22 OCT 1999 12:29AM Don Bakke wrote:
John,
You should really make sure all references to indexes are removed from your system. First, make sure the REVMEDIA entry that points to the deleted index table is removed. Second, make sure the REVMEDIA entry for the data file no longer has SI.MFS in the second field position. Last, do a manual removal of all index flags within the individual dictionary records and delete the %FIELDS% and %PROTECT.SPEC% records. If there are relational indexes there are more steps beyond these. At this point the system should think all you have is a regular non-indexed data file and you can continue from there.
dbakke@srpcs.com
