>A similar situation happens every now and again, when a workstation crashes. I have to open the table, add a record, delete the added record and pack the table. And all is well.
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>But in this case, I was not able to open the table at all. This was the first time that this has ever happened here.
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>I had 3 tables trashed, cmrepair could fix 2 of them.
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>That situation however has not happened in my own custom applications. My own applications have never had any of these issues.
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>The application in question is Made2Manage. A business software written in foxpro, available off the shelf.

I really don't understand that situation. To me, there is an external factor unknown in that situation that is causing those corruptions.