Thanks Alex and Girvin. (Sorry finger trouble - I know it's /var and not /ver!!)I have accepted what has happened and am busy re-building my DB from scratch! IMHO it is still WRONG to store Data in an area that gets overwritten every time you do a upgrade or re-install. In over 30 years in computers I have never seen this before!!! Maybe on big Mainframe set-ups but defiantly not on Home Computer systems. I will look into re-directing the data to a safer location once I have my DB back in one piece!!
The mistake I made was not knowing about this so when I re-installed my OpSys it formatted the area where the DB was stored so no chance of getting back at it!!
Girvin - I hear what you say about RTFM!! BUT - I would qualify this, It is something I have always recommended and do practice but in this case I'm just a "user". I want to set-up a DB and use it on a daily basis. I don't need, or am interested in, at this stage, becoming an SQL expert. Therin lies a big difference I think!!
So current situation - I managed to get MyAdmin working again by Flushing the Grant Tables so have set-up my new SQL DB, have linked it to Base and am currently trying to get my CSV data into it. I guess a week or twos work ahead of me at least and then, as I said, I will look into how to move the whole thing to a SAFE location.
Thanks for all the great help guys - it's greatly appreciated here!! Regards from a nice hot South Africa!! IanW Pretoria RSA. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+help@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted