Visual Fox Pro program 1

[jgamble]

Hi all! Help me please to solve my problem with Visual Fox Pro program. This error occurs when I attempt to open dbf format file : Error positioning in file. Any advice how to repair dbf file?

Hopefully someone will be able to help me with this,
Jack

 

[Olaf Doschke]

Error positioning in file

This is not a VFP error message, so when you can open the dbf with VFP itself and don't get a native error message like "Not a table" wihen doing so, the DBF is technically healthy but the application seems to look for something missing, for example a related record (head or detail record) to another record (the opposite detail or head record in another table). Such defects are about the relational integrity of data, but no file structural problem.

This error message doesn't give sufficient information to help. I even considered looking for any message about "positioning", but nothing like that is coming from VFP itself. You may have paraphrased this, but indeed the 1:1 error message and error number would explain more about your exact situation.

Generally speaking there are tools to fix technically corrupt tables, table headers, broken memo field references and more, typically with loss of broken records. See

http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~TableCorruptionRepairTools

for a list.

Bye, Olaf.

 

[JRB-Bldr]

solve my problem with Visual Fox Pro program

Is this an error message you are getting in a VFP Application?
* If so, then the error message is being generated by the application itself and, as Olaf says, it is not a 'standard' VFP error message.
* If this is your situation, I'd suggest that you contact your application developer to get an answer.

Or is it an error message that you are getting under circumstances other than through an application?
* If so, you need to better define those circumstances.

Good Luck,
JRB-Bldr

 

[jgamble]

Thanks for information and advice.

 

[mmmacoss]

DBF Repair Kit is intended for Visual FoxPro tables affected by any type of data corruption accident: from virus attacks and experiments with unknown software to hard drive failures and file system errors.
here the link: [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.dbf.repair/[/url]

Good luck

 

[jgamble]

Good app, Thanks a lot