I need guidance. I am running Family Origins 9 and Windows XP. No problems until yesterday afternoon. I had entered some vital statistics when break time came along.. I shutdown Family Origins. When I came back to work and tried to bring up FO in the usual way by dbl clicking on the short cut on my desk top. I got the following error message.: Error # 200 Error # 83805 C;\Documents and Settings\Dick\MyDocuments\Dicks Files#1\ Genealogy\Origins Databases\WeeksPikeDBF File is not a data base. Database corruption Detected When I click on this - OK or X it out (the only choices) I get the following error message: Error #935 Error # ---94001 Null input parameter unexpected d4 field This leads me to a screen where I may either click OK or close. Both take me back to the desktop. How do I get back in business. I have tried everything I can think of with no progress. And what did I do wrong so I don't do it again. Thanks, Dick Weeks
It sounds like your database got corrupted in some way about the time you shut down. That is a long path to the data files. I think that the file name was copied wrong from the error message. It should be only the first 7 letters of your database name, an identifying letter, the DOT and extension, DBF. That identifying letter just before the dot tells which DBF file it is that is corrupted, although there is little that the user can do about it. With Win 95, 98 or ME, there is a FOWin32.ini file in the Windows folder that tells Family Origins what options you have set. It sounds like you have it set to open the database(s) you were using when you shut down when it starts up. If you delete that fowin32.ini file you will be able to open FOW without a database loaded, then restore your most recent backup. I do not know if the version 9.0 to 9.02 patch will fix your problem or not. There were a lot of crashes and data corruptions on the Win 9X platforms before the patch was installed. Check your help menu and About Family Origins to see your version number, then, download and run the patch to upgrade it to 9.02 You can download the patch from the FormalSoft site at: http://www.formalsoft.com/files.htm If it has been a long time since you made your last backup, restore it into a new, empty folder so that it doesn't overwrite the original, there may be some information in that corrupted database that you can still extract some way. Alfred D. Eller http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~adelr/ ========================== ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jane & Dick Weeks" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 1:07 PM Subject: [FO] Corrupted Database > > > I need guidance. I am running Family Origins 9 and Windows XP. No > problems until yesterday afternoon. > > I had entered some vital statistics when break time came along.. I > shutdown Family Origins. When I came back to work and tried to bring up FO > in the usual way by dbl clicking on the short cut on my desk top. > I got the following error message.: > > Error # 200 > Error # 83805 > > C;\Documents and Settings\Dick\MyDocuments\Dicks Files#1\ > Genealogy\Origins Databases\WeeksPikeDBF > > File is not a data base. Database corruption Detected > > When I click on this - OK or X it out (the only choices) I get the > following error message: > > Error #935 > > Error # ---94001 > > Null input parameter > unexpected d4 field > > This leads me to a screen where I may either click OK or close. Both take > me back to the desktop. > > How do I get back in business. I have tried everything I can think of with > no progress. And what did I do wrong so I don't do it again. > > Thanks, Dick Weeks >