Student Data File Recovery
Identifying Bad Data Files
If you are having trouble accessing your grades or backing up your files, you
need to determine which file is corrupted.
The first radio button displays the file name of the corrupted file. Select
the radio button, and then click the Perform Recovery button. As each file is
read, the filename is displayed. If the file is corrupt, that filename remains
displayed.
Data Recovery from Internal Backup
Every time student grades are saved, a second copy of the grades is also saved
with the extension BAK. If the original data file for the class becomes
corrupted, this back up file can be renamed to become the regular data file, and the
area where the original data file was located is marked so the program does not
use that section of the diskette or hard drive. The BAK file is only for the
current term. Hopefully the BAK file is not damaged. If your diskette is going
bad, strongly consider getting your remaining valuable data to a new diskette
after you recover what you can.
Be aware that some Windows cleaning programs create more free space on your
hard drive by erasing all files that end with BAK. If a cleaning program or
utility is used with this option, your BAK files for Gradebook Power will be erased,
so you obviously won’t be able to recover your data from erased files.
If a data file is damaged (files ending with DA1, DA2, DA3, DA4, DA5, or DA6)
follow these steps:
- Click on the middle radio button – Data Recovery From Internal Back-Up
- Click on the class listed on the right.
- Click on the Perform Recovery button.
- Click OK to Leave this window, and check to see if your grades appear.
If your grades do not appear, you will need to get your data from your back up
folder location. Hopefully you made a recent back-up. If you checked a
setting on the SetUp | Teachers Settings selection for simultaneous saving to
diskette and hard drive, you would be able to recover your grades from the hard drive
for that class.
Create Blank Data File
If all means of recovery have failed, your data is lost; you will need to
start over with grades for the troubled class.
- Click on the Create Blank Data File.
- Make sure that the correct term is displayed that matches the troubled data
file.
- Click on the class name on the right.
- Click the Perform Recovery button.
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