I have had good success with foxfix with memo corruption. I would give it a try.

>>Al,
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>>Look like this will be the only option I'm afraid. I was hoping there would be some way of re-building the FPT file though so as to avoid this.
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>There's really no magic here. There's a variety of "repair" utilities out there but they fall into 2 basic categories:
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>- those that simply repair header/link information
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>- those that can fix some types of systematic corruption
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>The key is "systematic" - it sounds like, in your case, the problem is not systematic. Even if the utility is interactive (and I seem to recall using one a long time ago with 2.x tables) it might take just as long to "repair" the memo as it would to re-enter the data.