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>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
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Colin, another tool is Stonefield Database Toolkit SDT and FoxFix from XiTech.
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends - Martin Luther King, Jr.