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Sorry if this has been posted before but I have checked the forum and cannot find it anywhere.

Since I upgraded to the latest version of Vistumbler, I get this message everytime I start it.

"Old DB found. Would you like to recover it?" - With a list of previously saved DBs.


I always save before shutting down but this implies (to me) that it was not shut down correctly and needs to recover it.

Am I doing something wrong or should it be doing it?

I am using Windows 7, Vistumbler v10.5.1 beta 1.

There are only two ways you would see the "Old DB found. Would you like to recover it?" message. The first would be if Vistumbler shutdown improperly. The second would be if you exit vistumbler with ( File --> Exit (Save DB) )

By default, two locations are checked for old datebases to recover
%temp%\Vistumbler\
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Vistumbler

If a MDB file is in either of those directories you will get a prompt to recover the file when you load vistumbler. To stop the prompt you either need to delete the old file (which is one of the options the prompt gives) or, if you need them, move the files out of the directories above. You can also just ignore them and click "New Session"