Is there any way to restore or rebuild a corrupted database?

[Steve_McLain]

I'm trying to get information from a database, but it's corrupted and not allowing me to see any availbable traces.  If there any way to restore or rebuild a corrupted database?

[Andy F.]

Steve,

What version of Lookout/MAX are you using? Are you trying to view the traces through MAX? Are you getting a specific error message or are you just not getting any data. We may be able to rebuild the index file, but some more information will be helpful. Thanks!

Andy F.

[Steve_McLain]

I'm using MAX version 3.0.0.3003.  Lookout is version 5.1.  Yeah, I'm trying to view the traces through MAX, but no error comes up.  I just see no information.  There are definitely a lot of files in the database folder on my computer, but I don't know what they are. 

[Andy F.]

Interesting. If you right-click on the database and select properties are you able to retrieve any information? Does it say it has any pages/traces?

Andy F.

[Steve_McLain]

Here are a few screen captures of what I'm looking at.  The 3rd capture is of the files making up the database.

[Ryan.S]

It's not sure what's wrong with the database. You should see some traces if it is okay. I notice that there is a red alarm on bottom right corner which should be green if it is fine.

Could you zip all the database files and upload to ftp://ftp.ni.com/incoming?

Let me try to read the database.

[Steve_McLain]

The database is located here.

ftp://ftp.ni.com/incoming/DB%20Steve%20McLain.zip

[Ryan.S · Accepted solution]

The database is fine. See my attached screenshot. I can view the traces.

Try to remove the database in MAX, right click on it and select delete. Just remove it from the tree but leave the data. Then create a new database with the folder in MAX.

[Steve_McLain]

You know, I was reading it from a drive on our server, but then I extracted the file I sent you onto my local machine and it appears to be working fine.  Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

[Steve_McLain]

Okay, I've got two other databases that I can't get it to work on.  Can you take a look at these?  I tried to extract onto my local machine, but it didn't work this time.

ftp://ftp.ni.com/incoming/Steve%20McLain%20DB2.zip

ftp://ftp.ni.com/incoming/Steve%20McLain%20DB3.zip