Book Librarian Plus uses an extremely stable file system created by Softvelocity Corporation called the "Topspeed" format. SoftVelocity created Clarion for Windows the development system used to create Book Librarian Plus. You will probably never or rarely need to use the file manager. The system is very stable and does not experience the frequent corruption of such file systems as dBASE, Paradox and others. There is no need to perform time consuming regular rebuild of indexes after entering or editing data as required by some systems.
Any file system can become corrupt and hard disks do become defective and fail. The best security against file corruption and possible data loss is to backup your files on a regular basis. See Backup/Restore for information on backing up your files.
The screen and buttons are explained below.
Tag All Select all files/tables to be for action to be performed by Build, pack, Release, Fix or Info. To select a single file/table, place the cursor on the file and click. Click again to unselect a file.
Untag All Unselects all selected files.
Build Rebuilds (re-indexes) the program index files. You may want to perform this function if you notice information not being displayed in the correct order.
Pack When you delete a record from the database, it is not physically removed from the disk. It is just marked as deleted and the system does not display it. Pack physically deletes records marked as deleted and also does a build as described above. You may want to do a "Pack" if you deleted a lot of records.
Freshen Copy contents to a new file...DO NOT use unless directed by TurboSystemsCo, LLC
Create Create any missing files..DO NOT use unless directed by TurboSystemsCo, LLC
Info Displays the number of records in the selected files and the location of the file on your computer.
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