Let me first thank you for this message. Again I do appreciate the time you've taken to reply. With all this knowledge you are throwing around you should write a book. I'm sure that readers will appreciate your sarcastic tone but don't expect me to read it.
Again thanks I'll be sure to...
Well, if in STEP 1 (creating the new database) you turn OFF Name Autocorrect, it won't be an issue. Nobody with any sense at all leaves Name Autocorrect turned on as it's one of the most common sources of corruption out there. Also, it propagates its changes without confirmation so it often...
FYI
The document that describes how to create a regular database from a replica is missing an important step http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290052 .
A copy of the steps are below.
Create a new database.
Import all the objects, except for the tables, from the replicated database into the...
I may not have been as clear as I should have been as well.
I followed the steps that you've described exactly.
When I posted this problem there was one thing that I should have done that I missed.
The client PCs where the synchronization occurs still g=had versions of the old replicas. I...
A few weeks ago a database that we replicate stop replicating because the replicas in the set did not synchronize within the retension period.
There were only two replicas in the set and the Design Master was also out of date.
I rebuilt the database from scracth and re created the DM and...