>>>>Hi
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>>>>I have a table which has crashed when the server powered off - I can see the dara on the file when I view with a text editor but when I open in VFP6 it reports 0 records
>>>>
>>>>Any help would be very welcome
>>>>
>>>>Colin
>>>
>>>See
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>>Jos
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>>I can get round the problem of an invalid FPT file by giving the table a valid one - since I am not interested in the memo files at this point that will do me
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>>My problem is this - I know there is a lot of data in the table but when I open the file it reports 0 records
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>>Any ideas?
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>>Colin
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>Try the tools in the post link I gave you. They attempt to fix tables and their headers.
I downloaded a couple of tools in the end Abri was the easiest to use - they both told me that the record count had been corrected but it was obvious that the last 20000 records on the file had been damaged - thank you both for your help
Colin
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