Provides a description of an interesting case of FileMaker database corruption, as well as the troubleshooting and repair steps applied in this case.
In this particular example, the corruption was identified as data-derived, and generally caused no problems. Only in a single very specific circumstance did the corruption manifest itself to cause database crashes.
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ebase_db_corruption_ONDA.pdf (97Kb pdf file, 20Jun2003 revision)
Addition of suggested tests for database corruption.