Re: ** Standard Engine disaster, please help !! **
Posted in 1996
Peter Wiley — — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)
In article <58a8qe$b84@nntp.sigg.com> rdonat@sigg.com (Robert Donat) writes: >See if your SE comes with a utility called bcheck (or similar). You >may get lucky. > >Rob. > >mychmose@aol.com wrote: > >>SE v2.03 > >>Hi all, I have a .dat file without a .idx ( it was deleted by accident ). > >>I now can no longer select data from the table. Is there any solution to >>this problem? Funnily enough, just had this one myself from a client site. THe only way we could fix it was to grab a copy of the .idx file from backup, then run bcheck. That worked. I think. What I'd *really* like to know is where the .idx file went. Mr Nobody strikes again. Peter Wiley