>>Hi All:
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>>On a USE, I'm getting the following message:
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>>Table 'Foo.dbf' has become corrupted.  The table will have to be repaired before using again.
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>>When I run a program (SBT) that uses this table, the system crashes with the following message:
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>>Table 'Foo.dbf' has a file length/record count inconsistency.  The table will need to be rapaired before transactions can be committed properly.
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>>My question is: Is there a way to repair the table without having to restore from a backup? Note that this table is part of a .DBC database.
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>>Thanks,
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>>Yossi
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>I don't know why this works, but I received a tip several years ago that sometimes cleans this up.

>SET TABLEVALIDATE TO 0
>USE myTable
>GO BOTT
>BROWSE

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>Manually append 4 or 5 records (I use CTRL-Y in the browse window) and then DELETE the newly appended records.
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>It doesn't work all the time, but it works frequently enough to be worth a try.
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>.........Rich

That seems to have worked. Thanks!

One question: Are there still some gremlins lurking or does this pretty much recreate a pristine header?