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Adept Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 224 Location: USA

I have a file a friend sent to me, eq.db, which he said is the database he stores his identified items in zmud in. zMUD will not open it. If i open in word, I get nothing, If I open in notepad, I get ALOT of gibberish, and the file size is like 115kb so I know it isn't empty.

Is there a way to convert it, or another program that can open it?

I tried access and excel, didnt work.

Evangelist/Pernius
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Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2003 9:53 am

Which version(s) of zMUD? Though I dont think the Database format has changed in a while, you never know.. And are you sure you have it saved as binary?

Lady C.

GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 4379 Location: USA

How does zMUD not open it? Does it give an error? If so, what error?

Kjata

Adept Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 224 Location: USA

When I click the db button, then click file open, or the load database button, and select the file, it does nothing...no error, no movement, nothing at all :(

It was made in 6.16, I have tried opening in 6.16 and 6.4.

Any programs that will open .db files?

Evangelist/Pernius
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Adept Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 224 Location: USA

When I click the db button, then click file open, or the load database button, and select the file, it does nothing...no error, no movement, nothing at all :(

It was made in 6.16, I have tried opening in 6.16 and 6.4.

Any programs that will open .db files?

Evangelist/Pernius
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Adept Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 224 Location: USA

When I click the db button, then click file open, or the load database button, and select the file, it does nothing...no error, no movement, nothing at all :(

It was made in 6.16, I have tried opening in 6.16 and 6.4.

Any programs that will open .db files?

Evangelist/Pernius
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Adept Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 224 Location: USA

sorry for triple replies, hit enter too much.

how do I tell if it was saved as a binary file?

I know I can open it in notepad and there is tons of stuff, some of which I can make out.

Evangelist/Pernius
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GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 4379 Location: USA

Sorry, I have no idea what could be the problem except that the database file might be corrupted. I can open .db files fine in zMUD.

.db files are zMUD Database files. They are opened only with the database module in zMUD.

Kjata

Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2003 11:36 pm

Interestingly enough, I had the same issue, reported it, and got about the same answer. I'm going to attempt to e-mail zugg my database, and see if there is a corruption in it or not. (I'm pretty sure there is no corruption, I copied it from one drive to another while reinstalling, reinstalled, and nothing)

I'm also going to do some checking into the MS Jet versions, perhaps there is something that I had done before to XP-Pro that I had not done this time that went unchecked, or perhaps a newer version is required for XP-Pro, who knows.

Hopefully I'll find SOME way to open this one

Icechild
mv -f message.text /dev/null

Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2003 4:40 am

Well, I've confirmed it's not a JET driver issue (or if it is, they've introduced it into the latest version), as I'm running the latest version posted on the Microsoft website.

That boils it down to either zMUD, or a corrupt DB, I've e-mailed my databases to Zugg, in hopes of perhaps getting his opinion on which of those 2 it is

Icechild
mv -f message.text /dev/null

Adept Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 224 Location: USA

Any reasponse as to whether it is corrupt?

Evangelist/Pernius
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