Repairing a corrupt table

[StewartUK]

I'm getting error 2091 when trying to open a table. It became corrupt when the computer of the person using it rebooted itself (maybe it was bored?!).

I found thread1252-837757 and tried the links that Dave (

http://www.jjtc.com/Fox/foxfiles/)

& Lee (

http://customsoftware.co.uk/csmain/downloads.htm)

suggested.

The program on Lee's link (FixFoxPo) made no difference. I copied it into the same folder and then ran it from the Start\Run dialog, typing in

i:\newfred\fixfoxpo <bankstatement.dbf>

It pops up a DOS window for half a second and that's all.


Can anyone advise me on what I'm doing wrong with that one?
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I also tried using the repair.app on the link that Dave gave but get the error saying the app was compiled on a different version of VFP.

Any advice or suggestions would be very welcome.

Thanks,

Stewart

 

[mspratt]

Hi Stewart,

Instead of running from the Start/Run Dialog, open a DOS session and run from there so you get to see any error messages.

Regards,

Mike

 

[keepingbusy]

Hi Stewart

As Mike states, open a DOS session and run the FIXFOXPO from the command prompt

Good luck

Lee

Visual FoxPro Versions: 6 & 9
Operating System: Windows XP

http://www.customsoftware.co.uk

 

[StewartUK]

Thanks for your replies.

In the end I set TABLEVALIDATE off and was then able to open the table and unfortunately all the data had gone.

However it was a table of our company bank account, so the user in question was able to download it again and go on from there.

Stewart

 

[keepingbusy]

Stewart

Glad it worked out for you

Lee

Visual FoxPro Versions: 6 & 9
Operating System: Windows XP

http://www.customsoftware.co.uk