FINANCIAL GENERAL LEDGER DISASTER! (AREV Specific)
At 21 APR 1999 12:54:24PM F15CQB wrote:
RE: AREV RELEASE 2.1 / GENERAL LEDGER / NOVELL NETWARE /
IPX/ADVANCED NETWARE 2.1+ DRV.I WAS RECENTLY WORKING IN THE GENERAL LEDGER PRIOR YEAR 97 PROGRAM
TRYING TO RETRIEVE SOME FINANCIAL DATA/STATEMENTS. AFTER TRYING TO
TO CURRENT YEAR 98 ALL JOURNAL ENTRIES WERE SOMEHOW ERASED FROM THE
ACCOUNT INQUIRY SCREENS. HOWEVER, ALL CURRENT YTD SUMMARIES WERE STILL
THERE AND CORRECT TO THE PENNY! OUR P.O.S. SOFTWARE COMPANY SAYS THE FILES WERE SOMEHOW OVERWRITTEN AND THEY JUST DIALED IN AND RESET ALL
ACCOUNTS BACK TO ZERO AND SAID START OVER! PLEASE HELP AS I BELIEVE
THESE FILES ARE SOMEWHERE ON THE F:DRIVE (NETWORK SERVER) OR C:DRIVE.
I HAVE LOOKED AT BOTH BUT NO LUCK BUT I DO NOT KNOW WHAT TO REALLY
LOOK FOR. MY LAST PROMPT IN PRIOR YR. GL WAS TO CLOSE AND SAVE IN
C:ACCOUNTS. THIS WAS FOLLOWED BY THREE F: PROMPTS AND THEN THE SYSTEM
RETURNED TO 1998. THANX….AWAITING A CLUE/RESPONSE/ANSWER.
At 21 APR 1999 01:50PM Warren wrote:
Hopefully you have a full backup of before you reactivated the 97 entries and also one from before the POS software vendor zeroed out all the accounts (incredible that they would do such a thing without a backup).
On the network find all directories that contain REV*.LK files and from Arev TCL do a LISTMEDIA on all these directories which will show you the names of the files these represent.
At 21 APR 1999 01:50PM Mike Ruane, WinWin Solutions Inc. wrote:
By typing in all caps you are 'Yelling'- thought you might want to know.
You have either custom software or an accounting package- which is it?
Did you receive a 'Group Format Error' message? Are your files indexed? There is a lot more information we need to get from you in order to help you out.
Mike Ruane
WinWin Solutions Inc.
WWW.WinWinSol.Com