Frequent prompts for database rebuild

[wtagg]

Hello,

I have been using Bookends to sync my database to a portable HDD which is then synced between two machines (home <-->portable HDD<-->work). In the past, this has worked very well. But recently, I've been prompted to rebuild my database almost every time I run a complete sync between one machine to my portable HDD and to the other machine. I've tried a getting rid of all versions of the database except one I had recently verified and rebuilt. But even this has resulted in prompts for rebuild. Can anyone advise me on how I can restore integrity to my BE database?

Thanks,

Will

[Jon]

I'm guessing you're being prompted to rebuild the remote database, not the local one. Have you done that?

Jon
Sonny Software

[wtagg]

I've tried this but the fact that sync was active (upon open/close) made it difficult to resolve whether or not I had actually resolved the corruption problem. Another approach I've tried and just tried again this morning is to take the database copy that I know has been verified and rebuilt and copy it to the sync destination. So I'm taking a database on my work machine, copying it to the portable HDD, and then setting up a sync between those copies. My thinking is that this arrangement will ensure that I do not have any corruption between those databases. Provided that the copy on my home machine has been verified and rebuilt, if necessary, this should ensure that I won't have corruption problems. Is this sound thinking?

[Jon]

Yes, it's exactly what I was going to suggest next if you still had problems.

Jon
Sonny Software