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Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:24:48 -0500
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Terry,

I hope your arm--elbow, wasn't it?--is well-healed and functional by now!

I love the field count report--it is a big help in identifying problems.  I am having some problems with it, however.  I split a file of over 10,000 records into 3 files.  When I asked for a report on the first file I got an error message and was told to use the validator (it would be nice if I could get a report regardless of errors).

The validator reported that the 007 length was 14, when the expected length was 8.  This is true now but older records, I believe, did indeed have 14 characters. 

I then deleted all the 007 fields and asked again for a field count report.  Again I got an error message and was told to use the validator.  I did so and found an additional two records that were problems.  When I did a "find" on those records they were not retrieved by either 001 or 245, even though I had loaded the entire file.

I then used the delete function to remove the two problem records, and again asked for a field count report.  Again I got an error message and was told to use validator, which I did.  The validator retrieved the same two records, even though they had been deleted (or at least the field count was now two fewer).

Another problem I have had in the past was when I split a file manually (i.e. I did not use the split function) the field count was the same as the larger file.    

Margaret Wilson
Electronic Resources Cataloger
KU Libraries

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