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Newbie Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 4

Greetings all. I have a 40 meg mapfile (compressed down to 4KB) which neither my version of Zmud (7.21) nor Zmapper (1.30b) can read anymore.

I first installed zMapper and loaded up my recent map file, with no problems. I went into zMud and checked the plugins list but zMap wasn't there. I shut down zMap, ran it again a few times but it still wasn't recognized in the plugin list. I checked to make sure my versions were up-to-date (which they were). After a few more tries, the zMap plugin was recognized but now my mapfile won't load in zMap (or zmud)

I was wondering if there was some trick or utility in zMapper to "clean up" whatever is broken within my MDB file so it could be re-loaded. Would much love to save my work .... but I understand with beta software that errors will happen.

I'm running Win XP Service Pack 2, if that matters at all. Thanks for your time.

GURU Joined: 26 Jul 2001 Posts: 1958 Location: Canada

There is zsConvert.exe which you could give a whirl (not sure if it will do anything).

A pure guess would that it might be something with SQLite vs MDB.

Regardless what you do, save the mag somewhere as a backup.

Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 4:42 pm

No, zsConvert just converts the old .MAP files into the .MDB database format. If you go to the http://www.zuggsoft.com/data page there is a utility somewhere on the page called the MDAC Repair program from Microsoft that will repair and compress a MDB database. This is the same as the function within zMapper itself in the File>Compress menu option.

Apprentice Joined: 11 Sep 2005 Posts: 124

I managed to recover my db by using zone copy with a new map and that had a single zone that didnt share any of the imported names.