From your message, I am not sure what FO files you actually have on your cd. A regular FO database has 35 files (at least in the later versions). From a version 5 I have on an old computer, it looks like it has 28 files. I would guess that if he saved all of your files, you must have the regular backup that you would have made each time you exited your computer. If what you have done so far does not work, I would look for that one file and try a restore into FO. The current backups have an extension filename.zip. I do not remember what it was in version 4. It was zip for version 5. Margaret Scheffler ----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil & Elizabeth Marshall" <libby@emunet.com.au> To: <FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 8:05 AM Subject: [FO] Lost Information > Dear Listers, > > I had to recover my computer on sunday night. The person who did this saved all of our important 'stuff' to a CD. This was a direct move of the information from our Family Origins 4.0 programme (amongst others) to the D drive (CD). When we recovered we attempted to put our FO 4.0 into the computer and we got a 'Codebase Error'. I did not panic as my dad runs the same programme. But alas when I tried to import the data to his programme I again got a 'codebase error: 60'. > > It appears that the direct movement of data now cannot be read by the computer. It was not stored as a gedcom or as a backup. > > I have older backups I can use, the most recent is May 2001, but we are missing almost 1000 names between that file and the one we have lost. > > I would appreciate any help or suggestions in how to retrieve the data from the CD. > > I wait hopefully...with thanks > > Elizabeth Marshall > libby@emunet.com.au > > > > ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== > GETTING THE MOST OUT OF FAMILY ORIGINS by Bruce Buzbee - FO DEMO > http://formalsoft.com NO WEB ACCESS? Write to FormalSoft@aol.com for ordering information. > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > Source for Family History Online. Go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB >