>I am having problems in three of my VFP3.0b apps. Each of these apps are being run by several different clients. The problem does not occur very often (2 or 3 times in the last year). I am getting invalid records in several tables. Every field in the invalid records is filled with ASCII 0 characters. For example, if the field is 20 characters then there would be 20 ASCII 0's. When I browse the corrupted tables from VFP the record appears to be full of vertical bars. When I cursor around the browse window, the bars disappear for the field that has the focus. Numeric fields appear to be blank until they get the focus then they appear to contain 0. Logical fields appear to contain the 'bar' until they get the focus then it changes to a .F.
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>These invlid records do not appear to be included in the index.
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>Hope this makes sense.
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>Has anyone else ever seen records containing these ASCII 0 values?
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>Thanks for the ideas,


Sounds like classic data corruption problems. I suggest a good data recovery tool to fix the problem.