[GraemeJ]

Now we have two people who have never used Companion, but still have missing files it would seem Companion is off the hook - at least, the current version, not sure about the old one.

One thing appears to be fairly certain, this problem goes back a long way - quite probably to the original MS. My backup (made with MS and the original Companion) was initially imported into MSP and it's quite possible the missing files were missing even then. If that is the case, then subsequent backups and restores just propagated the error.

Like many users, I have a fairly large collection of charts (2000+) and nobody with that many wants to start from scratch and re-build from nothing into MSP. When you have that many files, it's a real chore to check every one - and I, for one, never did. It's only since Mike introduced the diagnostics that we have started to get a handle on the problem.

What would be good would be to find a forum member, with an equally large database and who has only ever used MSP and see if they have experienced any missing file problems?

All that said, I refer you to post #28 in this thread - to me, that indicates there is still a problem with the current versions that needs to be resolved.

Obviously, I will now run the diagnostics every time I do a restore .