I was trying to do some end of the year / beginning of the year maintenance and I messed up.

I have NEVER moved a single past employee out of my master file, so I thought i would finally widdle it down to only active people.  In the move employee process it asks for a location for the new master file (we are not using named master files).  I created a sub directory under my main data directory for "Past Employees".  Rather than going thru and hand selecting in the range box all the past employees, I used a formula.  BUT....instead of having the formula be Last Year Gross = 0, I had it as <>0....which moved ALL MY CURRENT EMPLOYEES.  Urgh!!!

How can I move them back?  I can't open that master file as we are not using named files?  In the old days of Timberline, i would could just move the TS.CTL file and that would allow me to find the data in that directory.  But that doesn't seem to work these days.  I thought about just moving the two master files to the correct locations, but I didn't think that would work as there are probably pervasive DBs files that are tied to them.  I did a backup of my data files prior to closing the end of the year, but I didn't do a backup prior to trying to move the employees.

So....any suggestions?

Thank you.