thanks for the reply.
Unfortunately, the database structure is out of our control. The Foxpro tables are used & created by ABRA HR software. The reason we had to create this program was ABRA was crashing repeatedly due to the attachment FPT's being over 2GB. Unfortunately, ABRA is not coming...
OK so maybe I won't start a new topic (man I wish they had an edit button here :-D)
Anyway the problem is that somewhere along the lines, a different form of PDF was attached in the FPT. Older attachments all work and newer attachments don't, I compared the binary data between the two, and...
Well maybe I shouldn't have panicked and posted so quickly, as I have figured out the problem. That said, I have a different problem now related to this, but since it is not related to the FPT, I will start a new topic.
Ok so I found out that I can open up the "corrupted" attachments within FoxPro itself. I just click on the BLOB field, and the corresponding attachment will show. So it may not be a PDF after all, but I have no idea what it is supposed to be!
Sorry I wasn't more clear...
Ok so the program displays a list of all the given attachments for a particular employee (taken from the DBF). When the user selects a particular attachment, the program will load whatever PDF data is stored in the corresponding FPT file.
This works for most of the...
Hi,
Using Foxpro 6 here. Due to 2GB related bugs, we were forced to archive our employee attachments table(PDF scans of Driver's license etc,SSN card etc..) into identical yet separate tables. We made a program that allows our HR staff to access all archived tables.
This has worked well...
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