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Offline Osoro

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Database format
« on: 03 02 2020, 14:53:51 »
Hi there. I have old corrupted database, not ecrypted.
So i want to make simple tool for checking consistency and will try to find error manually.

Do we have anywhere documentation about database format, or it is can be find only on source code?
 

Offline dartraiden

Re: Database format
« Reply #1 on: 03 02 2020, 17:44:22 »
How old? Is it MMAP or MDBX database?
 

Offline Osoro

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Re: Database format
« Reply #2 on: 03 02 2020, 18:33:52 »
2007
.dat file
winhex showing readable content inside
 

Offline dartraiden

Re: Database format
« Reply #3 on: 03 02 2020, 18:51:21 »
miranda im + dbtool

 

Offline Osoro

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Re: Database format
« Reply #4 on: 03 02 2020, 21:14:53 »
It is not repairing automatically. Destroying history. So i want to try manually somehow.
 

Offline ghazan

Re: Database format
« Reply #5 on: 05 02 2020, 17:20:06 »
Osoro,
it seems that the only way of recovering this file is writing your own tool that will uncrunch data from the old profile.
all structures are described in the /plugins/Dbx_mmap/src/dbintf.h, so you can easily create your own program that reads them