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Can a zapped database be recovered? 3

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teering

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I zapped an important database by mistake, using VFP 7
can this be recovered? I haven't found anything on the faq sections
thanks for any help


Teresa Pickering
Professional Computer Services
 
No way.
I hope you have a good and recet backup.
ZAP do not mark records ligicaly as deleted, it just create a new table with same structure and replace old one with records.

Borislav Borissov
 
It is VERY unlikely that you can recover the data from the table. Your only hopes are a) a back-up and b) using an 'undelete' program to drag it off the hard drive - which is very unlikely to work.

You *COULD* be lucky and find that you had modified the structure recently - in which case there would be a back-up in the same folder. The mytable.dbf becomes mytable.bak and the memos end up in mytable.tbk

Good luck

Regards

Griff
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