On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 14:41:46 -0600, Scout <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Pertinent info would be that it occurred on a site that had >experienced a variety of file damage including some garbaged >records in the PERMVARS file. > >SWAG: I'd suspect that PERMVARS was tracking when digests were >last issued so, This is correct. i.e. the Digest "count" is maintained in PERMVARS, so loss of or damage to the file would result in the count being lost.