Someone else in using the project

[imarlb 0]

Please help. I’m in a bit of a pickle.

Here’s what I did today.

1) Backed up project.

2) Validated integrity of project – no problems found.

3) Re-optimised project. Lots of errors, files not found, things missing etc.

4) TMG went away.

5) Restarted TMG but it couldn’t open the project.

6) Attempted to restore backup but I got the message that someone else is using the project.

7) Rebooted and repeated step 6

8) Created a new blank project and repeated step 6.

9) Rebooted and repeated step 6 with a much older backup – same result.

10) Tried to open TMG Utility with this result

Error -1 from [CTMGDB.VerifyIndexFiles]

Index files are missing (see below); open the dataset in TMG to build the index files, then close TMG and try again.

Index file(s) missing:

Dowd_Marlborough_$.cdx

Dowd_Marlborough_a.cdx

Dowd_Marlborough_e.cdx

Dowd_Marlborough_f.cdx

Dowd_Marlborough_g.cdx

Dowd_Marlborough_i.cdx

Dowd_Marlborough_k.cdx

Dowd_Marlborough_l.cdx

Dowd_Marlborough_m.cdx

Dowd_Marlborough_p.cdx

Dowd_Marlborough_r.cdx

Dowd_Marlborough_s.cdx

Dowd_Marlborough_t.cdx

Dowd_Marlborough_u.cdx

Dowd_Marlborough_w.cdx

But I can't open the dataset to rebuild the index files. I have lots of backups but TMG won’t restore any of them. Please help.

I’m using Gold UK edition v. 8.08.000 on Windows 7.

TIA, Irene

 

[imarlb 0]

Well, I'm not sure exactly what happened but I fixed the problem by using a backup of the entire projects path. I opened a 2 year old version of my project which was in a previous incarnation of version 8. I chose to do this away from the default TMG path. This project opened up with no problems. I applied my latest backup from this morning and it worked just fine. I moved all of these files back to the original folder and opened the project from there.

 

All is well again, I think.