Re: How many records do I have?

["Enrique Lynch" <lynch@nospam.trivium.gh.ub.es>]

El 19 Dec 2001 a las 7:29, Joachim Linder escribió:

>> 
> Enrique:
> 
> my datafiles
> 
> ALLES     #00      999333
> ALLES     #01      999428
> ALLES     #02       89228
> 
> amount to 7146 records (instead of making heavy use of the ANNOTATION
> field I prefer ORBIS).  I faintly remember having had a similar
> problem. I suggest a cure similar to that Mervyn suggested the other
> day (his mail should be in the Hamline Archives for NB):

My entries are not annotated. Unfortunately Mervyn's out, in the 
jungle. I'll have to wait until beginning of January. I do have 
backup copies of the datafiles anyway.

> 
> Have safe backups of all of your datafiles (on diskettes, CDs, tape -
> not only on your HDs) - even before you might want to take a look at
> them in NB's word processor, Show Codes Mode.
> 
> Remove the LIBROS database and delete all connected files with
> Explorer. Create a new LIBROS db with a single entry. Use Append
> Records to include your old entries (preferably from a duplicate of
> your safe backups). Let IBIDEM do its indexing etc. See what happens.
> 

Thanks for the tip. Gonna try it and let you know.

Best,

Enrique
 


Dr. Enrique Lynch
Departamento de Historia de la Filosofía, Estética y Filosofía de la 
Cultura
Universidad de Barcelona