all entries in Database disappeared!

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I had just read a post here about the script for “set title as”, and was excited to try it out. I thought I needed to quit DTPro in order for the script to take effect (true? or is that a throwback to my windows days…?), so I did “opt-Q”. Noticing that it was taking a while, I right-clicked on the DTPro seashell icon in the dock, and told it to force quit.

Upon restarting the software, my database came up absolutely empty! Not a single pdf, rtf, or anything in the whole of the database. Luckily, I had a backup from a few days back (and over the past 2 days, I hadn’t added much info as I had been travelling), but I did lose some work.

Can anyone tell me what happened? This could have been potentially disasterous, and I (and I am sure many others) would like to know how to avoid this ever happening again. For what it’s worth, I have the latest available build of DTPro running on OS X 10.4.4.

Laslty, is there any way to get back my lost work? Any help would greatly be appreciated!

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Probably DT was performing some automatic, necessary optimizations of its database on quit and as you’ve used force quit, the database files were incomplete/damaged. (the next release will make such optimizations less often necessary).

But many scripts require that DT Pro is running and that something is selected.

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There is tool->recover backup to restore the database to the last backup.