>I have a user that is running a VFP6 application. Twice now he corrupted his DBC file. If I USE mydbc.dbc and BROWSE, I see that a bunch of garbage records were appended to the DBC and the DBC lost most of it's connections to it's tables.
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>I had to FREE TABLE on all his tables and ADD TABLES and redo the views.
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>What can cause a DBF or a DBC to get corrupted? Abnormal shutdowns like a power outage or re-booting without quiting out of the app?
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>This happened to him twice now. All other users have no problems like this.
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>Thanks,
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>Jerryt

There are a zillion things that can happen. Bad network cards/cables/drivers. Power surges, people turning off computers, code problems can also cause problems. Note that this list is not complete...but is a starting point.