Such cross pointering was what I had in mind. Not neccessarily done by program but edited by hand where senseful. And may be as the only file into the database a .png (small) to have a better idea what stuff is defined.

But at the moment I'm more or less stinky ... I need no corona virus ... I have Microsoft ... :-( . Transfer of the video-access.mdb is a little more difficult. Libre Office in 64 bit version is having trouble reading access. I guess a mismatch between 32 and 64 bit. Although they say its done in 6.3 ... it doesn't do it. But exporting with Access into a Excel-Sheet and reading that into Libre-Base is working ... not such elegant ...

But the restore of the backup from my crashed drive with all the nice VB sources has also crashed. Its a Paragon backup but actual Paragon version don't recognize it. What are these developers if their security software isn't able to read a little bit older backups ????? The 64 bit software installed well (incl. MS C++ Library ---- the roundabout dozends one on my PC ... that library indeed has some viral character) but doesn't read the backup. Thought may be also 32-64 bit mismatch, deinstalled it and installed the 32 bit version ... what a joke ... progress bar is running until 97% and then going straight backwards to 0 %. Such I have never seen before .... and got the comment "Sorry some problem installing ..." . Ok, so I searched the DVD's for the old Paragon version (no. 6 - actual 17), found it and installed. Absolut no problem but running it missed wnaspi32.dll. Okkkk, I got the dll twice from internet and lastly the correct one from the old c:-drive which run with Paragon 6. But Paragon 6 is sure with itself that this is not a correct windows version ... a bit stupid ... ok, it's Windows 7 and not NT4 or XP but indeed I'm absolutly sure IT IS Windows.

Ok, so once in time in this galaxy I have a complete backup and nothing will help me to read it ... there is the difference between such a backup and no backup ... right A WASTE of time and drive space ...

But the problem is that this way at the moment I see no way, have no idea how to come to my done database work ... and my intension to start all again from scratch is definitly very low at the moment. I long time was not sure why I was not unhappy as IBM closed my company two years before my 25. year ... but now again I found the reason for my happyness - no trouble with problems to solve by IT which without IT don't exist ... have to think if I find a idea to crack that damned backup ...

Or maybe I settle down on couch ... without DB at the end ...