Repair Failed

[Allsop]

Another thread, (Duplicate files not showing as duplicates) has prompted me to ask about an abiding problem that I have lived with for some time. I regularly run Tools>Verify & Repair, and I always seem to come up with 2 orphaned files and so run repair with the result that I get the message “Repair failed 2 errors left”. Any suggestions for further action? Since reading the thread referred to above I have also downloaded and run COCKtail once but the problem still remains. Thanks for any help.

[Bill_DeVille]

It’s time to run Tools > Rebuild Database. Note that you can refile the orphan files into your databases.

[Allsop]

@Bill_DeVille

It’s time to run Tools > Rebuild Database. Note that you can refile the orphan files into your databases.

Thanks for this. I have done as you sugesst but still have 2 orphaned files, apparently, and the repair failed! But in the Orphaned File smart folder there are no files. Hmmph…

[korm]

@Allsop

I always seem to come up with 2 orphaned files and so run repair with the result that I get the message “Repair failed 2 errors left”.

Have you looked at Window > Log after you do a V&R – at times more detail for the errors is listed there.

I have also downloaded and run thingy once but the problem still remains.

What is “thingy”?

[Allsop]

@korm

@Allsop

I always seem to come up with 2 orphaned files and so run repair with the result that I get the message “Repair failed 2 errors left”.

Have you looked at Window > Log after you do a V&R – at times more detail for the errors is listed there.

I have also downloaded and run thingy once but the problem still remains.

What is “thingy”?

No idea! I meant Cocktail—how the heck “thingy” got in is a mystery.

[Allsop]

Well this is weird, I am tyoing obe thing and another is showing on the thread! Try agin but in capitaks COCKTAIL, lower case cocktail.

[Allsop]

Right what is happening, apart from my appaling spelling In the other thread I mentioned earlier, (Duplicate files not showing as duplicates) Bill recommended a couple of maintenance applications and I downloaded and run the first one, it is the name of this that I am typing and that is coming out as thingy, try again Cocktail

[Allsop]

Trying different versions of the word that is coming out wrong!!!

cocktail
COCKTAIL
CocktailL
Cocktail
Cocktail
COCKtail
cockTAIL

[Allsop]

Well this is rather funny in a way! Anyone like to try it and see if it does the same?

[Allsop]

By the way I am using DEVONagent Pro as my browser.

[korm]

I see from Bill’s posting what thingy is. Not a browser issue - the forum’s acceptable-words filter does not like words formed from this set of characters {c,k,o}. What you’re trying to post is C0cktail – a very useful app, by the way. Changing the set to {c,k,0} is the trick for getting your message past the nanny.

[Allsop]

Tanks Korm, that explains that then. I shall always from now on refer to my pre-dinner drink as a “Thingie”

After that short diversion back to my original problem! Anu ideas on this one?

[korm]

So, does the Log report more info when V&R fails?

[Allsop]

@korm

So, does the Log report more info when V&R fails?

This is a screen shot of the Log.

[korm]

Does V&R create a group (not a smart group, a group) inside your “Genealogy Family File” databased, named “orphaned…”, that contains these files?

[Allsop]

@korm

Does V&R create a group (not a smart group, a group) inside your “Genealogy Family File” databased, named “orphaned…”, that contains these files?

Yes, but greyed out.

[korm]

Close the database. Close DEVONthink. Navigate to the database in Finder. Control-click the database package file and choose “Show Package Contents”. You’ll see something that looks like this:

Look in the folder named “Orphans”. Is there anything there?

[Allsop]

Yes. What next? Grateful for help.