The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective From the archives: In the '90s, OS geeks adored BFS's ahead-of-its-time feature set.

A corrupted and damaged database file in the system was blamed for the stoppage, the FAA said. More than 1,300 flights were canceled Wednesday and 10,000 were delayed Wednesday.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said a “damaged database file” was likely to blame for a computer system outage that halted domestic departures on Wednesday morning and led to ...

Thumbs.db is a system file that contains the thumbnail cache–a collection of thumbnail images for photos, documents, Web pages, and so on–for a particular folder.

And, due to stupidity, I deleted the DB file (s) hoping that you could force File History to "reattach" to that store, scan it, rebuild the DB and we could get on with life.

The transaction log file contains the SQL Server transactions of the database. It basically records the database transactions and the changes made by the transactions to the database. The logs are ...

The persistence.xml file is the component that makes database integration possible in JPA-based applications. Like all XML, the JPA persistence.xml file starts off with the requisite, bloated ...

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