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Do you trust Memo Fields???
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02/12/2004 09:09:13
 
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Visual FoxPro
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Coding, syntax & commands
Miscellaneous
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00966208
Message ID:
00966361
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>Over 10 years ago we did away with memo fields because of the common problem of memo file corruption. (Computer has a bad day or Power goes out, etc. and memo file is now trash.) We changed to using a separate, standard .DBF with each memo divided into 64 byte fields with a key.
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>My question is this: Are memo fields now safe? I don’t hear anything on them anymore. It used to be you would go to DevCon and someone would give an entire presentation on recovering them.
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>Any and all comments are welcome.
>TIA

If your system is perfect then you have no problems,
but with
- Power off
- kill application
- intensive access to shared files on cached networks
I have many doubts.

Fabio
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