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Corrupt memos
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19/12/1997 13:34:00
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Visual FoxPro
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Other
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00067084
Message ID:
00067255
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>>>We've recently been getting lots of corrupt memos. Specifically, what's
>>>happening is that when a user adds a memo, it sometimes acts as if all
>>>previous memos are getting deleted. When I BROWSE the table, Memo appears
>>>in the BROWSE as opposed to memo, indicating the VFP thinks there is
>>>data there. But when I Ctrl+PgDn, nothing is displayed.
>>>
>>>There are two things that I suspect are causing this to happen:
>>>
>>>1. Corrupt data. I'm currently running FoxFix.
>>>2. Netware drivers. We recently upgraded all desktops to Win95.
>>>This is about the same time that the corruption started. The
>>>Netware drivers are Intranetware Client 2.2.0.0. Has anyone
>>>heard of problems using these drivers with Fox???
>>>
>>>
>>>Also, if anyone has any other ideas that I can look at, let me know.
>>
>>I had this problem that was a bear to figure out. My problem that the pointer from the .DBF to the corresponding place in the .FPT was screwed up. Pack and Pack Memo did not help. To fix it, I opened the table and did a COPY TO TEMPFILE (WITH CDX), verify the contents of the TEMPFILE, close and delete original .DBF and .FPT. Then rename all the TEMPFILE components. IF your table is linked to a .DBC, then I would ZAP original then APPEND FROM TEMPFILE in order to maintain all your table properties.
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>
>We ran FoxFix. It found some problems with decimals, but not with pointers to memos.
>This problem surfaced when we moved to Win95 about 2 weeks ago. Is there a problem
>with VFP and the Intranetware drivers?

I also ran FoxFix but it did not catch my particular problem. We run Netware here as well (3.11 instead of Intranetware 4.x). But with my experience with NW, I would really doubt any problem is with that. Were the tables originally VFP tables under Win3.1? You may still want to try the copy option.
Mark McCasland
Midlothian, TX USA
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