>What do you mean the table is part of the exe? How did your friend send
>it to you if it's "part of the exe"? :)

It's part of a set of files used by an executable. The executable does access the table (as witnessed by its date stamp) without problem, but it shows as "not a table" when I tried to access it via VFP 9.

>If it's now corrupt, there's not much you can do.

As I said, it gets used daily by the program, but I cannot read it conventionally.

>Refoxing the program may let you determine the field names in the exe
>and even the data types and sizes so you can rebuild the file.

The data is the important part of it. I can determine the structure from a small amount of documentation.

>You may be able to look at the file with a hex editor and
>get the field names from there.

I tried the hex editor, and the header does not look the way I expected. I cannot pick out any field names from the garble. Still, the file is regularly read and written by the executable, and I know it started life as a FoxPro table.


Does anyone know why Recover was fooled into thinking it could not open the file exclusively?