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PACK on Memo issue
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From
09/02/1999 20:56:32
 
 
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09/02/1999 20:16:53
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00185770
Message ID:
00185779
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15
>Hi all,
>I have an issue of Packing a dbf file with memo field
>in it. An error prompted "Invalid or Missing file..."
>when I issued a PACK command.
>
>Issuing a PACK DBF there isn't any problem, but if
>PACK MEMO or just PACK(will pack dbf and memo files)
>then the error message appear.
>
>Could a memo file be corrupted? What or how can it get
>corrupted? How can I go about repairing the memo file
>without loosing my memo data? Thanks.


Assuming that you have not yet experienced any data loss, you might try making a temporary copy of the live records, ZAPping the live table, and then reappending the copied records.

Something like:

USE TblWMemo EXCLUSIVE
COPY TO TempFile FOR ! DELETED()
ZAP
APPEND FROM TempFile
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