Thanks, Tom for your help. I have tried to follow your suggestions. First, I compacted in RM, then I defragged and cleaned up. Finally I did a CHKDSK. When I open RM I still get the error message.Unless anyone has any other suggestions, I suppose I need to call in some professional help. Suzanne On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Tom Holden <ve3meo@gmail.com> wrote: > The SQLite Error 26 definition is "File opened that is not a database > file". > I would have thought that would be fatal and am surprised that you are able > to keep on working on the database. Is it possible that you had two > databases open the last time you closed RM and that you have been changing > the names of databases, possibly naming a file the same as one of the ones > open in the last session and that it is not a RootsMagic database but > something else, e.g., if you changed the extension to .rmgc, RM thinks it > is > a RM database file until it opens it and its database engine (SQLite3) > determines that it is not a SQLite3 database. Is this a recurring problem > with the same database file but not others? If so, then it sounds like your > database file has suffered some corruption which you might be able to > recover from by using RM's File > Database Tools, especially Compact which > should rewrite the database file in its entirety. If there was corruption, > it might be caused by one of two things: a power glitch during a write > operation or some degradation of your hard disc drive. In the case of the > latter, that may give you grief again, not necessarily with RootsMagic. You > would be wise to run the Windows Error-checking tool CHKDSK. > > Tom > > -----Original Message----- > From: Suzanne Brayer > Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 12:21 PM > To: rootsmagic-users@rootsweb.com ; sybrayer@gmail.com > Subject: [RMagic] Error 26 message > > When I open RM ver 6 I am getting a SQLite error 26 message. What is the > trouble? Once I close the error message window, I am able to work in the > system. > > > =================================== > RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS > WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: > http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ROOTSMAGIC-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > =================================== > RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS > WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: > http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ROOTSMAGIC-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >