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From: "Duncan Mackay" <Duncan.Mackay@flinders.edu.au>
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 10:44:36 +0930
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Hi, can anyone help with the following problem? A month ago, I backed up a
_Data folder onto a CD. Now I have inadvertently removed some objects from
the current version of that database on my hard drive, so I thought that the
easiest way to recover them would simply be to retrieve them from the copy
on the CD. To my consternation (!), when I try to attach the _Data folder on
the CD, I get the following cryptic message

Error in cat(file=paste(dir,"__db3.1",sep="/")): couldn't open file
"D:\...\_Data/__db3.1" in cat

HELP!!

I notice that there's a forward slash after "_Data" in the error message -
could that be the problem??

Why on earth should I have problems accessing a database folder that worked
perfectly before I copied it on to the CD???
Copying the folder from the CD to my hard drive and trying to access it from
there also doesn't help ???????????

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Dr. Duncan Mackay
Biological Sciences
Flinders University
GPO Box 2100
Adelaide
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AUSTRALIA

Phone   (08) 8201 2627
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