Hi,

>>Someone just asked me to look at a VFP database corruption problem...
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>>When attempting to open the database in the project manager I get the following error:
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>>This file is incompatible with the current version of Visual FoxPro. Run 30UPDATE.PRG to update the file to the current version.
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>>Only reference I could find to this is at http://support.microsoft.com/?id=200025 but only in that it details it as a spurious error message. None of the other factors apply (i.e. no multiple executables or ADO or the Visual FoxPro ODBC involved - and it's not VFP6.0)
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>>FWIW this database has never been near a VFP3.0 environment but I think that's a red herring anyway.
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>Maybe a file has been corrupted in such a way that your current version of VFP (which is it?) thinks it's a 3.0 file.

That's what I thought. AFAICT the DBC design changed between the beta and release versions of VFP3 and 30UPDATE.PRG was provided to make the conversion. I figured that if I could find out what changes were made (a copy of 30UPDATE.PRG should show that) I'd have a clue about where to look for the problem in the DBC. The DBC opens OK as a table BTW.

>Besides the usual database/table/index suspects you might want to look at your FOXUSER resource files (perhaps rename them to see if that makes a difference).

I'll check but the same error occurred in three different environments (the user, initial tech support guy and my own) so I don't think it will be a factor.

Regards,
Viv