Bud, Something like that happened to me about a year and a half ago. After I did an optimize I was getting an error. I had to restore from backup. My solution was to backup before I did an optimize and copy the directory so I could replace the file that was missing. I was then able to do a validate and had no problem with a 2nd optimize. The problem stopped when 6 months later my computer died. So it may have been a failing hard drive. Good luck! Patt On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 7:05 AM, Russell Dorr via <tmg@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Hi all: > I guess my charmed TMG life had to come to an end sometime. I've managed > to avoid any serious problems in the over 15 years I've been using this > great program. > I went to fire up TMG this morning and got this. > "Repair mode has been activated." > I hit "OK" > The TMG screen came up and it said it was loading, then I got this: > the blue options screen which listed a bunch of options such as last, > sample, select. etc. All choices are available except the "last" which is > grayed out. > I did not dare to hit any of the other choices not knowing what would > happen so I just hit the "x" at the right top. > Then I got this: > The Master Genealogist (repair mode) message which stated: > "An error happened when opening the data tables...File C:\PROGRAM FILES > (X86)\THE MASTER GENEALOGIST V9\_ND.dbf not found." > I hit OK and TMG is off my screen. > What now? > Bud Dorr > > > > The TMG archive is found here: > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ > Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TMG-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message -- Patt Ricketts www.jackandpatt.com