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   Shawn to All   
   Records go poof!   
   16 Jul 09 16:31:12   
   
   From: newsgroups@abp-pos.com   
      
   We cannot explain why a group of tables ended up completely empty yesterday.   
   Some of the tables had thousands of records, and they all have the same   
   modified date/time of 4pm. Most still show varying sizes up to around 2MB,   
   but they are all empty. This software is used daily, and has been for years.   
   Does anyone know what may have emptied a handful of tables, yet left others   
   alone in the same directory?   
      
   The company using the software is very large, and has many users tied into   
   the database via a mapped drive. At this point, we are clueless, but we need   
   to give some sort of explanation as to what happened. They are rectifying   
   the situation themselves, using what they can from daily backups that they   
   make, but from what they say, it is still quite a task.   
      
   They are running PdoxRT V10 (Winxp) - It is virtually impossible to find out   
   what/who happened due to the amount of users touching the database daily.   
   There is a total of 121 files in that directory, and 42 were emptied   
   somehow.   
      
   TIA   
   Shawn   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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