If the master database listings in Sentinel (that are stored on your computer) get corrupted for some reason and you see some strange or missing data in the master database listings in the Sentinel program, using "Reconstruct Full Database" will access the latest update file that was downloaded to your computer in a compressed format and rebuild the database in Sentinel from that compressed download file. It does not do anything to the database in the scanner.
If the database
in the scanner becomes corrupted for some reason, that's where you use the "Force Write Full Database" checkbox when you are writing to the scanner from Sentinel. See my post at this link for info on that...
Hello. Relatively new to digital scanning, so bear with me, please. I have a Uniden BCD436HP scanner. Up until about 2 weeks ago, it was picking up Morris County (Morris County Trunking System, Morris County, New Jersey) just fine. Lots of action in Randolph, Morris Plains, Morrsitown, etc...
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To see that compressed download file, look in "C:\ProgramData\Uniden\BCDx36HP_Sentinel\Updater\" and there will be a file there named "MasterHpdb[_month_date_year].gz.