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skurakai
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lost movies

Post by skurakai »

Hi. I have big problem with database. I lost almost all films. Filesize looks good (950kb) but there is no films :??:

With backup have exactly same problem.

Is any chance to rescue data from database?

http://www.skurakai.ic.cz/amc.amc
http://www.skurakai.ic.cz/amc.bak

Thanks
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Post by antp »

How many movies are supposed to be in that? That size is not big for a catalog with pictures.
It is probably possible to recover something using an hexadecimal editor, but I do not have time right now unfortunately.
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Post by bad4u »

It seems there are quite a lot of pictures corrupted and prevent the catalog from loading. When I delete some corrupted movies completly and so are able to load the first 20 films, there are still some cover pictures on the movies that look weired/corrupted.

About the size - the pictures are very small, maybe around 150x100 pixels.
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Post by antp »

I still wonder how all these corrupt catalog problems occur :/
I wonder if there is a bug in the program (and if it is the case, what cause that, since I really do not see what it could be), or if it is due to another program or some hardware/software problem.

As the .bak file is corrupted too, there is really little chance that it is due to AMC: when saving the current file is renamed to .bak and a new .amc is created. So the .bak was a valid loaded catalog, and not modified since then.
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