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Fixing cannot resolve backlink error
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10/04/2000 15:04:30
 
 
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10/04/2000 14:00:01
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00357612
Message ID:
00357634
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17
>Sometimes my users copy tables and dbcs files between
>directories and got
>"Cannot resolve backlink error"
>
>Is it possible to remove programmatically backlink without third-party utility in exe file ?

A few points:

1. If the DBC and the tables are in the same folder, you should never get this message, unless the users copy just tables and forget to copy the DBC as well. Hard-coded DBC paths are only stored in the table headers if the table is not in the same folder as the DBC.

2. Removing the backlink (i.e. freeing the table from the database) does a lot of potentially undesirable things, like killing long field names, relations, etc. Rather than having the users copy files around, it would be better to offer an export utility in your program - either write out a VFP compatible database, or free tables using COPY TO ... TYPE FOX2X.
Regards. Al

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