Damaged Free List Error.

[Lamar Hargreaves, LH Web Services.]

Hi,
    I had the same problem with my Fronter server - version 8.
    It's running on Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, with IIS.
    The problem was that when I ran up Frontier it told me the message
    about the data-base, then it would preform an illegal operation.
    Of course, there was no way to backup the data-base, except from
    copying it out of the Guest Data-bases > WWW folder.
    But the data-base was corrupt.
    I eventruly had to re-install Userland Frontier Manila, and the
    Frontier server, and now it is working perfectly fine now.

    Do you have any suggestions, as why this might have / could happen
    again ??

 Thanks.

-- 
 Regards,
         Lamar Hargreaves,
         LH Web Services.
         Nelson, New Zealand.
         http://www.lhweb.co.nz
         webmaster at lhweb.co.nz
         0211547321, 0256623173,
         0274172752, 0252499344.

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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2002 09:38:35 -0700
> From: Raymond Yee <yee at uclink.berkeley.edu>
> To: frontier-users at userland.com
> Subject: How to fix "damaged free list" error?
> Reply-To: Frontier-Users at userland.com
> 
> 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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> Raymond Yee                          44 Barrows Hall, #3810
> Technology Architect                            UC Berkeley
> Interactive University Project      Berkeley, CA 94720-3810
> yee at uclink.berkeley.edu                 510-642-0476 (work)
> http://www.raymondyee.net               413-541-5683  (fax)
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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 17:56:03 +0100
> To: Frontier-Users at userland.com
> From: "David A. Bayly" <dbayly at udena.ch>
> Subject: Re: How to fix "damaged free list" error?
> Reply-To: Frontier-Users at userland.com
> 
> 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
>>
>>--
>>Raymond Yee                          44 Barrows Hall, #3810
>>Technology Architect                            UC Berkeley
>>Interactive University Project      Berkeley, CA 94720-3810
>>yee at uclink.berkeley.edu                 510-642-0476 (work)
>>http://www.raymondyee.net               413-541-5683  (fax)
> 
> 
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> 
> - David Bayly.       Programmer and digest reader.     dbayly at udena
> dot ch
>   		Digest Readers do it once a day.
> 
> 
> 
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