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I have just had a disaster and would like some help. I have a database of a business register that I have to keep securely. To do this I created a virtual disk using the tools on my iMac protected by a password. This has worked well for a couple of years. However, today I had entered some new data, then sought to close it afterwards, as is my custom, to receive a message that it couldn't be closed because (I can't remember the exact message but it was something like a linked program was using it) I looked about for any such, because I certainly hadn't had anything linking to it and couldn't find anything. The same notice suggested saving the document with another name which I tried without success. At that stage, in retrospect very foolishly, I thought that the original would be safe on my hard disk and force ejected the virtual disk. You can guess what happened next!
I tried to open the link which opens up the virtual disk where I would then have to insert the password to open it up but the link didn't work!
Is it possible that a backup which I would have carried out about a month ago using Time Machine would contain my Register? I'm not sure how to access a file within a backup because it's never been necessary before
As you can imagine this is pretty terrible and I would appreciate any helpful suggestions from anyone. Please don't call me an idiot, I know that already!!
Chris
I tried to open the link which opens up the virtual disk where I would then have to insert the password to open it up but the link didn't work!
Is it possible that a backup which I would have carried out about a month ago using Time Machine would contain my Register? I'm not sure how to access a file within a backup because it's never been necessary before
As you can imagine this is pretty terrible and I would appreciate any helpful suggestions from anyone. Please don't call me an idiot, I know that already!!
Chris