Navfit98a - Does anybody have experience with this?

[IrishEagle85]

I wasn't really sure where to put this.

Anyways, I just spent the last 5-6 hours writing the fitreps and evals for the kids in my platoon. I was getting ready to send the final database up to my Company Commander, and the root folder containing the entire database completely disappeared. When I open the NavFit98a file I had been working on, the root folder is completely gone.

Does anybody know what causes this, and if there is any chance of recovering my fitreps? If not, I'll have to redo them all tomorrow afternoon.

 

[Scoob]

That's like asking if anyone here has ever preflighted an aircraft.

Try this: http://www.navyfitrep.com/navfitprobandsolution.html

 

[MasterBates]

I thought you preflighted it? Oops.

 

[IrishEagle85]

That was the first site I went to, and I couldn't find my particular problem listed there.

Basically, you know when you open the NavFit98a file, and there's a folder listed in the screen to the top left, titled "root"? That folder is missing. If I create a new database and try to import the data from the original file I had been working with, where it usually says format and lists the formats as NavFit98a, it says "unknown" instead.



Update:
I opened the file with Microsoft Access instead, and it seems I can access most of the original information and most importantly, the eval comments I made. So I suppose I can copy and paste most of the stuff back in. I can open up the individual tables and the table specific information is intact. If I had to make a guess, I would say the table relationships somehow got corrupted.

 

[haubby]

You just learned a valuable lesson with Navfit. Always backup your fitreps/evals on disks.

 

[helmet91]

You just learned a valuable lesson with Navfit. Always backup your fitreps/evals on disks.

x1000

 

[adam28270]

Just be careful with the import function. Importing a file into the root folder could wipe the whole thing clean. You have to import individual fitreps to do it correctly I believe. A MIDN here thought he knew what he was doing and erased everyone's fitreps so we had to re-do them. We finally learned to back up the database several times a day during fitrep season. You might be better off just copying and pasting.

 

[phrogpilot73]

Let me tell you, going from the USMC's system (A-PES) which is web-based (and I thought a pain-in-the-ass) to helping PSW get hers done, I realized that the Navy needs to get with the 90's on their FITREP program...

 

[PropStop]

I think the US Navy is the only institution in the world that still uses floppy disks.

You can use geek sticks, but that's assuming the old ass computer you might be working on can use a geek stick...

 

[phrogpilot73]

I think the US Navy is the only institution in the world that still uses floppy disks.

Navfit is the sole reason we now have a floppy drive on our home computer. You'd be surprised how pricey they are when no-one's buying them.

 

[Huggy Bear]

Not to mention the DOS like ancient system for recording flight data - NALCOMIS; our logbooks are still handwritten or at best differently recorded by each squadron, and don't get me started on NMCI.

Ya know, I work for a civilian company now and all of our admin is modern, user friendly, and works like it's supposed to.

 

[IrishEagle85]

After I rewrite my fitreps later in the day, I'm going to go back and play with the original file in Access and see if I can't figure out a way to fix it, since the table contents are still intact. I'm convinced the problem lies in the ability of Navfit to recognize the database as a Navfit database, which could be as simple as an erroneous value in one of the data cells. I know I can't be the first one this has happened to, so figuring it out could potentially help others in the future (assuming others are as naive as me to not backup their file). If for nothing else than closure, since the fact this happened is driving me batshit.

 

[Uncle Fester]

If you don't hate NavFit98, it's because you've never used it.

 

[FlyinSpy]

Not to mention the DOS like ancient system for recording flight data - NALCOMIS; our logbooks are still handwritten or at best differently recorded by each squadron, and don't get me started on NMCI.

Ya know, I work for a civilian company now and all of our admin is modern, user friendly, and works like it's supposed to.

I love the irony of the fact when you try and email your NAVFIT fitrep file to the Admin-O, NMCI screens out the attachment as "unsafe"...

 

[jus2mch]

That was the first site I went to, and I couldn't find my particular problem listed there.

Basically, you know when you open the NavFit98a file, and there's a folder listed in the screen to the top left, titled "root"? That folder is missing. If I create a new database and try to import the data from the original file I had been working with, where it usually says format and lists the formats as NavFit98a, it says "unknown" instead.



Update:
I opened the file with Microsoft Access instead, and it seems I can access most of the original information and most importantly, the eval comments I made. So I suppose I can copy and paste most of the stuff back in. I can open up the individual tables and the table specific information is intact. If I had to make a guess, I would say the table relationships somehow got corrupted.

This happened to me before. I searched each individual Eval file in the Start/Search function. I also searched for the Root File, but could only find the individual files.