>>We have a large table which has given the message "Table '< tablename >' has been corrupted. The table will need to be repaired before using again.
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>>There is no memo file associated with this table.
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>>My experience with repair tools is that they have not been very useful.
>>Has that been your experience as well?
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>We get this occasionally and sometimes the following works. I have no idea why but it may be worth a shot. In the command window we.......

>CLOSE DATA ALL
>SET TABLEVALIDATE TO 0
>USE < tablename >
>GO BOTT
>BROWSE
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>< append some blank records > &&anywhere from 3-5 records seems to work
>< delete those records >
>CLOSE DATA ALL
>SET TABLEVALIDATE TO yourvalue

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>This was a trick that was passed to me by the previous programmer. I have no clue why it works, but in most cases it does the job

I've never used TableValidate for a table not belonging to a database. I know I didn't state that earlier but I was curious. Does that work for stand alone tables as well.