--=======3D535334======= Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-67257BA9; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In attempting to verify a disk-spanned backup this morning on my laptop (safely away from the desktop "main" database where it was made) I corrupted my database and crashed FO 10. To recover from this I unzipped an old backup from the laptop hard drive over the now-corrupted database files. That took care of the crashing FO. Then I went to my last disk-spanned backup. It was also bad. (The third set back was OK but I checked no further.) Thinking that my rotating sets of floppies have been rotated and used beyond their useful life I got a new pair of disks to create another backup. It also turned out to be bad. The files on these disks appear to be normal whether viewed with Explorer, WinZip or DOS commands. On my desktop computer I created another backup but this time on a Zip disk with which I successfully updated the database on the laptop. Using one of the "suspect" floppies from my rotating set I backed up a much smaller database and restored it to the laptop with no problem. Therefore, to me at least, it seems to be a disk-spanning problem. Whether the problem is in creating it on the desktop or in reading it on the laptop I don't know. I tried to extract the files using WinZip to narrow it down further but WinZip requires an Add-on to extract disk-spanned files. At this point the problem is only a minor inconvenience since I plan to switch to RM in a couple weeks (days?) so I probably won't try reinstalling FO 10 but it could conceivably be a problem that would show up with RM also. Or maybe someone can point out something I am overlooking. --=======3D535334=======--