paf-digest V1 #18

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paf-digest            Monday, June 8 1998            Volume 01 : Number 018



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       Re: PAF: The computer ate the Js
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Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 09:35:25 -0700
From: rhaldy@Juno.Com (Richard L Halliday)
Subject: Re: PAF: The computer ate the Js

On Thu, 4 Jun 1998 21:48:12 -0400 (EDT) Cheryl Singhal
<csinghal@CapAccess.org> writes:
>
>Now that I have your attention. (g)
>
>A colleague tells me that her husband has PAF 2.31 set up to run under 
>
>Win 3.1.  The last several times she added information to her data, it 
>
>has vanished.  Each time it vanishes it takes out a different part of 
>the 
>REST of the data base.
>
>For example:  she added 50 individuals, and linked them into families, 
>
>PRINTED IT OFF, and exited PAF.  A week or so later, she went back to 
>print off more copies, and the information wasn't there -- nor was the 
>
>JONES families (one of her big ones).  She moaned piteously, and 
>reentered all her JONES data AND the same 50 people she'd added the 
>week 
>before.  Printed off the extra copies, and exited.  Three weeks later, 
>
>she went back in to add some more people and the LONGs were gone from 
>the 
>data base (another of her biggies) along with those 50 newcomers.
>
>She's afraid to look after she re-entered them the last time.
>
>So, anyone have any clues?  What do I even tell her to look for?  (My 
>first thought was that her husband was dividing the database without 
>remembering to tell her about it, but she says he has never used the 
>program and didn't seem to know anything about it when she was singing 
>
>the blues over her problems.)
>
>This is my week for off-the-wall problems.
>
>Cheryl

Chryl;
   DOS 4.x had a write cache.  Is your friends Windows 3.1 loaded on top
of DOS 4.1?  If the PAF user turned off his computer without shutting
down PAF AND WAITING about 30 seconds, then the information in the write
cache was lost.  Worse than that the "wonderful little write cache
program" also copied the table which kept track of where all the files
were stored on the disk into memory.  If the  computer was turned off
before this was copied back onto the hard disk, then big chunks of the
files could be lost.  This sounds like the problem your friend has, not
the virus or failing hard disk that I described in the previous message.
   I still am a strong advocate of multiple backup copies and of running
Family Records Check (choice 4 on the PAF Access Menu).

             Richard L. Halliday                rhaldy@juno.com

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Date: Sat, 06 Jun 1998 19:27:01 -0600
From: Sandra Jeffers <sandii@micron.net>
Subject: PAF: (no subject)

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