>>Hi,
>>I have a old client that has contacted me because he is getting strange results from queries etc.. There are several tables in the DBC that
>>will not pack (this is VFP6) and they are very large (all three over a gig each). I have a tool "ADR" from the past and I used on the tables.
>>The tool did not repair the tables, fpt's, and cdx's. It did create tablename_fixed.* files but they too will not pack. Strange - two of the tables will
>>allow" pack memo". Also the same two dbf's will allow a reindex. The error message is "Data mismatch" and then stops.
>>
>>Does anyone have a suggestion or a better tool to fix the tables?
>>
>>Johnf
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>What happens if you remove the index file, then PACK?

The first thing that will happen is you'll get an "index file missing" error, won't you? It's been a long time since I saw one of those so maybe I am out of date.