>Is there a product or technique that would allow for policing curruption (database, tables, etc) in an application without having to handle them as a support call by the user. I have't invested in any 3rd party product yet, but am being killed by the frequency of having to recover something related to data several times a day (pc lockup, VFP freezing etc).
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>Is the developer community being plagued with data curruption problems in the real world or am I missing an important piece of information.
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>Any solutions or advice would be greatly appreciated!
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>Thanks,
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>Gary Pike.

There are several old public-domain samples of file header and memo file repair utilities. In my app, all DBF's are checked for corruption when the app is started. If a damaged file is found, an improper shutdown screen appears and the app offers to fix the damaged files (using the samples from public-domain).

This seems to fix damaged files 99.9% of the time.

Hope this helps,
Mark