... and finds that fsrecover.py doesn't fix it, or loses too much data during recovery, check out this recipe: http://www.zopelabs.com/cookbook/1054240694 It's nothing really new, but maybe easier to find than sifting through the mailing list archives to arrive at some variant of the same technique. Would have saved me a lot of time when I first ran into a corrupted database. -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com Look! Up in the sky! It's THE NUTRIA! (random hero from isometric.spaceninja.com)