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Recovering data from table
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22/12/2006 12:28:08
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Troubleshooting
Environment versions
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01179789
Message ID:
01179792
Views:
19
>A friend just asked me to try to recover data from some .dbf tables of his that were used as part of an executable program. The original programmer either died or retired, and there is no longer any help for this program.
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>He sent me the table, but when I attempted to open it, I received the infamous "Not a table" message. I wonder whether the table has been encrypted, and if there is anything that can be done about it.
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>I used the "Recover" program (Abri Technologies), but it determined the file to be in use elsewhere (this was false), and would not do anything with it.
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>Is there something that can be done with this file? The table I'm attempting to read is part of the executable, and has no problems when called by that program; do I need to get ReFox and reverse-engineer the original program?

There may be a trick or two... run the executable from the VFP IDE, and with a debugger on. Set a breakpoint on alias() (or alias()="YOURALIAS" if you know it) in the watch window. When it stops, try looking for your table in the View window (aka Data Environment window). Once you see it, it's a simple matter of "copy to yournewtable with cdx" in the command window.

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