[Zubersoft]

I'm really sorry you encountered this again. I'm not sure if some devices or PCs are more prone to database corruption than others, but I have still never encountered this myself. It would appear that my error checking wasn't triggered either, which is surprising. The fact that the automatic backup and your own backup wouldn't restore either means there was some serious corruption present in your database file, so it was most likely just a matter of time before something bad occurred. You could also save the database yourself periodically if needed if you enable the "Expose Database" setting in the storage settings and then copy it off your device.

Currently, I keep multiple automatic database backups. The first is just a copy of the current database and is updated every time the application is closed. The second is a copy that is up to a week old. I don't keep any backups beyond that. For most users, they never need either of the automatic backups, so I don't want to keep a huge list of backups automatically.

It is possible to salvage information from a corrupted database, but the amount retrieved depends upon the type of corruption and how extensive it is. If you want me to extract the database from your manual backup and try to fix the file, I can certainly do that, but there is no guarantee that everything will still be present in the database afterward.

Mike