>>>> This looks like an endianess mismatch; did you already mention on
>>>> what
>>>> architecture you are on?
>>
>>> MacPro, Leopard
>>
>> Did you just move from a PPC-based Mac to an Intel-based one?
>> If so, you're out of luck --- you need to go back to the PPC
>> to make a dump of those files.
>>
>
> No, I just re-installed my Intel Mac. First I just upgraded from
> Tiger to Leopard (without getting my database to run; but I didn't
> put much effort into it); and then I completely erased the disk and
> installed Leopard from scratch.
Hmmmm..... Can't be that I am standing now there having lost my data,
no? Please, any faintest idea what I can try?
Thanks for hints!
Stef