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SkyIDE:
My BCB V6 project got currupted on its own by itself. I have no idea how. I just launched it, F9 and I got bombarded with linker errors. Fortunately I had made a fresh backup copy of the source the previous day and this one works fine.

What puzzles me is, it just stopped working. The linker gave me all these warnings cannot open somefile.dfm quite a few of them. The back up copy works fine but the one on the hard disk did not. I didn't make any modifications in project properies...

Does anyone have any ideas what might have happened?

I looked at the #include paths and they were still the same.

tchikien:
.dfm files are the form files that store all controls/components you placed on the form at design time. If your .dfm files corrupted you get errors.

SkyIDE:
Interesting, ahh well...moving along....

I back up the project sometimes a few times a day. After every considirable amount of code work, backing up is a must and now it paid off :)  Let this be an example to other people -- expect the unexpected and always back up your work.

f0dder:
1) chkdks /f on all your partitions, just for good measures.
2) subversion for finer level of control than plain backups.

mouser:
another thing is to compare the backup and hd files and see whats changed.

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