Hi Doug,
thanks for confirming. I had already tried the VALIDATE, but no go. Ended up restoring the DBC from my last backup, had to manually fiddle with it so that it would open with the changed file structures. Took a couple hours, but I got it to work.
>Hi Frank.
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>>Is it possible to recreate the DBC from the data in COREMETA and/or SDTMETA?
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>Not without doing a lot of work -- SDT considers the DBC to be part of the meta data, so it doesn't duplicate things in the DBC like field captions, rules, triggers, etc.
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>Try backing up the DBC (even just copying the DBC, DCX, and DCT files to another directory) and then using VALIDATE DATABASE RECOVER to see if that helps.
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>DOug