How to fix "damaged free list" error?

[David A. Bayly]

You can sometimes figure out which one is the culprit by  launching 
frontier and watching the about window  until the error appears.  If 
the message doesn't appear, do a save copy on the lot, there's a 
chance that if one is corrupt that others will be too.

You ideally should to do a save copy on each GDB, on a  regular 
basis, its the nearest thing to a validation check that Frontier 
posses. I do it once a week, and I wrote scripts to automate the 
process to a  degree.


>I've been getting the following error message from Frontier 8:  "This
>database has a damaged free list. Use the save as command to create a
>new, compacted database"
>
>The problem is that there is no indication of which database is
>damaged.  How do I figure which database is damaged?  Should I go
>through each database that is open and do a "save as".
>
>Thanks,
>
>-Raymond
>
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