[TI] FTM damaged file
Corie Lindemann
corielind at msn.com
Fri Jun 26 12:42:16 CDT 2009
Any of you experienced Family Tree Maker users have advice for me? I was
working with my family file last night merging a duplicate individual and
got a "this file is damaged" message. I went to open the FBK backup and that
gave me the same message. The file still shows 71MB, but I can't figure out
how to fix the damage to get at the data. All the FTM tips on damaged files
don't work because I can't open it at all to compress it or reindex or
export to GEDCOM. Ack!
Unfortunately, this was a really bad time to find out that my automatic
internet Carbonite backup system did not back up any files in program
folders like FTM, even though it said it backs up the whole hard drive!!!!
(So if you have one of those, be sure to check what it is backing up!!!)
I'm so bummed. I have a CD back up from last summer, but I had added 800
names since then!!! Any advice on damaged file recovery would be
appreciated!!!!
Thanks,
Corie
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