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Handling Corrupt Indices
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28/10/1998 23:09:58
 
 
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28/10/1998 19:50:45
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Visual FoxPro
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Other
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00151798
Message ID:
00152083
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>Hi,
> Just use the command - delete tag all, then reindex it again.
>I used to capture the index corruption error, then use the above command to
>solve my problem. HTH.
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>>I have a general, blood-and-guts question about handling corrupt CDXes.
>>
>>If you have a scenario where a table's CDX is corrupted to the point that you can't open the table, then what is the approved method of re-creating the CDX so that the file can be opened and reindexed?
>>
>>There's some legacy code in a system we have that is setting byte 29 of the DBF file to CHR(0) using FWRITE, but this sends shudders down my spine -- even if we find the new "correct" location, it seems sure to change at some point in the future and burn us again.
>>
>>-- jas

This won't work. If you can't open the CDX, you can't DELETE TAGs.
Craig Berntson
MCSD, Microsoft .Net MVP, Grape City Community Influencer
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