Peachtree corrupt .dat files

[montana9550]

Is there any way to repair corrupt .dat files myself and put repaired files back into company folder? Will Peachtree recognize them after being repaired?
Right now Peachtree will not start-up because of 6 corrupt files.

 

[dgillz]

What are the files?

Did you never get a corrupt file error before today?

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[montana9550]

Files are listed below, and became corrupt today after a power outage shutdown a bunch of computers on the network while peachtree was running.

chart.dat
general.dat
invchain.dat
invcost.dat
JrnlHdr.dat
JrnlRow.dat

I downloaded "Data checker for Peachtree" and after it scans all peachtree data, it lists these 6 files and being corrupt. When I try to start peachtree I get this error message:
"Unable to determine security privileges. Please retry later. This is probably due to another user temporarily blocking access to critical files."

All other computers on netweork are now turned off.

 

[dgillz]

I'd try to rebuild the files in Btrieve. Please note that this can still cause data loss.

If that does not work out well, I'd restore from backup. You DO have a backup, correct?

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[montana9550]

I do have a backup but it is not as recent as I'd like. Where to I find Btrieve and how do I use it. Everything I've "Goolged" on it gives me a lot of different information that is not making much sense in regards to .dat files. Thanks.

 

[montana9550]

I found Btrieve and it rebuilt 4 of the files successfully but 2 of the files have these statements in error log.

REBUILD-68: Status code 54 was returned while copying records from the following file:
REBUILD rejected a total of 89035 records.

Can anything be done or am I stuck backing up?

 

[dgillz]

No, this is the data loss I mentioned.

If you can find a copy of BTViewer, it has a rebuild utility in it that has saved me when Btrieve itself failed. Access Microsystems in NJ is the author of this software but I think they went out of business.

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