>>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"? :)
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>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.
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>>If it's now corrupt, there's not much you can do.
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>As I said, it gets used daily by the program, but I cannot read it conventionally.
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>>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.
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>The data is the important part of it. I can determine the structure from a small amount of documentation.
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>>You may be able to look at the file with a hex editor and
>>get the field names from there.
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>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.
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>Does anyone know why Recover was fooled into thinking it could not open the file exclusively?

Is this single- or multi-user application?