Re: How To Rebuild Objects From Text Files?

On May 19, 1:51 am, lyle fairfield <lyle.fairfi...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

A little further search brings up this error described but no
suggestion as to its cause or cure. If you were to post the text file
for the first form that fails, some of us might see if we can load the
form into a database with the LoadFromText method. If so, we will know
its not your form. If not, we might be able to study the problem in
general terms, (or you could just send me the text file and I'll post
it: lyle dot fairfield at gmail dot com).- Hide quoted text -

After a few hours of experimentation I've made a few observations.
The DB I am working with is an A2003 database, but I have a sneaking
suspicion that it is one that I have converted from A2000. Not sure
if this has any bearing on anything but I imported all of the objects
into a new A2003 database and tried running the code again. It
partially worked this time. As before, all the objects were saved as
text, but this time some of the forms were imported from the text
files before it fell over. I then tried importing some of the forms
that were missed on the import one by one by using the LoadFromText
method and this worked. This seems to indicate that there is nothing
inherently wrong with the forms. When I view the forms they look and
work fine.

The scenario is the same on a couple of other databases that I tried
running the code on. Some of the forms will import, then the code
fails. I'm 99% sure that these are native A2003 databases and haven't
been converted from an earlier version. As to why the original code is
failing and not importing all the objects, I don't know. It may well
remain a mystery of the ages. At least now I know that in a worst
case scenario if I ever have to use this, I can export all the objects
to text using the original code and then use the LoadFromText method
to import them all one by one. Quite laborious, but it would work.

I intend to experiment with this further when I have a bit more time
on my hands and will post if I get to the root of the problem.
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