In Linux and other Unix-like operating system, you can detect and repair hard drive errors using fsck command. This command runs in 5 phases. In the first phase, it checks data blocks and their size while in second phase file and directory pathnames are checked. In the remaining three phases, the connectivity, file reference counts and the cylinder groups are examined respectively. If in the second phase, fsck disk checking process fails, you...more
GIMP is a graphics editing software. Although not a very popular one, the GIMP was designed by GNU as an image editing and retouching software. With GIMP one can perform image workflow steps such as editing, cropping photos, combining multiple pictures, converting between various image formats, etc. One can also use it to create basic animated images in GIF format.While editing pictures on our system, the computer uses a virtual memory to store...more
Whenever you open your Microsoft Access database, a LDB (Locking Database) file is automatically created in the same directory. The file is primarily used by Jet Database engine to prevent database users from writing data on pages that are locked by any other database user. LDB file gets deleted when the user quits from the database. While the LDB file is automatically deleted in most cases after database shutdown, it exists in case your Access database is corrupted or damaged. In such situations, you might encounter many strange error messages related to LDB file. This can further cause more corruption to your database and result in huge losses. To avoid such situations, you can restore the data from an updated backup. However, if no backup is available or backup falls short to restore the desired information, then you will need to search for the effective repair access software.Consider a practical scenario, where your Access database has been corrupted and the LDB file did not get deleted. This further leads in producing strange error messages like:Couldn't lock table ; currently in use by user on computer .To resolve the above error message and to avoid any further corruption,...more
At one time or another we have all wished for disaster recovery solutions to restore a hard drive, or to simply and inexpensively find the material you were working on when your pc crashed.Concise Computer Consulting specializes in on-site PC and Network service. We are now pleased to offer secure, off-site data backup systems to our clients!...more
As the computer repair center for Oakland, Wayne and Macomb Counties, Concise maintains a client list that resembles the whos who in the Michigan small business community. They are good, and they are growing out of their digs in Bloomfield Hills.One of the reasons that Concise is so well respected in their industry is because they take the time to...more
As the computer repair center for Oakland, Wayne and Macomb Counties, Concise maintains a client list that resembles the whos who in the Michigan small business community. They are good, and they are growing out of their digs in Bloomfield Hills.One of the reasons that Concise is so well respected in their industry is because they take the time to explain and teach at the same time. Lets face it, the information highway has its own language today. Computer techies have always had a vernacular that tended to exclude the rest of the non-techie world. Making things worse for us non-techies today, is the next layer of computer- speak: abbreviations of all the words that we had no clue about from the beginning.The staff at Concise will now lead the pc tech support field by offering a series of articles with those definitions of words from the computer tech support world. This is the first offering in what Concise hopes will be a long series of definitions from the computer tech speaker.HONEYPOTWikipedia defines a HONEYPOT in computer speak, as a trap set to detect, deflect, or in some manner counteract unauthorized attempts to obtain use of information systems. A HONEYPOT consists...more
A Disaster Recovery Plan is a complete preventive measure that helps obviate the harmful effects caused by unforeseen and unplanned events. These events may be either man-made or natural causes. The effect is more or less the same - disastrous. A...more
Split Pst File - Outlook 2002 and prior versions have a default file size limitation for .pst files of 2 GB. But its later versions come with a unique UNICODE format for PST that sets its size limit to default value of 20 GB. The files are less prone...more
Microsoft Outlook Recovery - Outlook Personal folders on a LAN/WAN link is an unsupported configuration. The main reason is that .pst files use file-access-driven method for storing the messages, however, on LAN/WAN links, network-access-drive...more
CF cards are among the most convenient data storage devices used in several hundreds of digital cameras and many other portable digital devices. CF cards are protected by their built-in data safeguard technologies. In spite of their safety measures,...more
Data and information stored on your computer hard drive or any other storage media may get lost due to mistake, accident or damage. There is a number of recovery applications available in the market by which you can easily handle most of the logical...more
Depending on your needs for availability, you may want to have server farms in your area to which your system can switch. If you do not have redundant batteries, it is recommended that you store recent backups offsite so you can quickly acquire...more