>Recently a DBF on my clients machine was corrputed. It had a few records which had shifted either Right or Left for One or Two Character. A couple of records were almost intact with a couple of fields shifted.
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>What could have happened or what could have caused it and any solutions except for hacking the DBF into shapre. This app is running full time 8 hours a day. How to avoid this in future or atleast able to nip it in the bud.
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>Thanks in Advance.

Take a look at http://www.craigberntson.com/Articles/kb005.htm for some info on tables and indexes corruption. I don't think there's any tool that could fix such a table.