OK it all worked for me now. Thanks for the help. One of the issues was that I had only deleted one type of file from the blocks folder and not the other. So file 0949 was actually OK in the end. Broadcasted the raw tx and currently receiving BCH. Now almost done consolidating all my BCH....
are you saying we also have to delete the rev*****.dat files from today back to 00949 from the blocks directory/file?
is that all we have to delete to claim BCH?