I downloaded CMRepair utility and ran it against my tables. It shows NO corruption. I don't know who to believe, FoxFix or CMRepair. At least with CMRepair I can sleep better <g>. But I wish VFPT would come up with a tool to check VFP tables for corruption.
>Why do you think that table is corrupted? Why do you think that header is corrupted?
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>>I need to fix a corrupted VFP database table. I suspect that the table header is corrupted. I have a questions:
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>>I created a new table of the same structure using the following:
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>>select DBF_EXIST
>>afields( aDbfStruct )
>>create table DBF_NEW free from array aDbfStruct
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>>Then I scan the corrupted table and copy all fields to the new table. Then drop the existing table, and rename the new one.
>>But at the end the corruption is not fixed.
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>>I thought that by creating a new table, VFP would create a new header and the problem would be fixed. Yet, it does not work that way.
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>>What am I missing?
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>>Thank you.
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