On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 10:42 AM, John R. Sowden <jsow...@americansentry.net> wrote: > We had a computer freeze during the night (it gets cold in the SF Bay Area), > and the worker was doing data enter into a dbf using foxpro/dos 2.6, under > program control. I flush the buffer after every record entered, due to some > 'segment errors' of yesteryear. Now we cannot get back into the dbf because > it comes up as a 'not a dbf' error. I have solved this in the past but I > don't remember how, and usually it was a trial and error. I deleted the > .cdx file, as I can create it easily again. I backup this type of dbf > daily, but I would rather her not experience the re-entry process as it will > reduce her confidence in computers. > > This is a header issue. What is a clear solution to this. I have hex > editors, I can write code using foxpro low level file access, etc. I looked > at the header and saw the first 16 bytes as: > 03 0D 0B 09 04 19 00 00-21 01 4B 00 00 00 00 00 > > The file has about 6500 records (est-my daily backup wrote over the good dbf > with the bad dbf (need to rethink my daily backup program ;) )backed up > > The answer might help others with the same error. > > John
IIRC having FoxBase (yes, FoxBase) around came in handy for this sort of thing. If you go into FB and (fuzzy memory here) APPEND FROM or COPY TO or similar it would often fix these sorts of problems... Maybe in import/export with Excel? -- Matt Jarvis Eugene, Oregon USA _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CAPT54rYru1=t9d66kqojc4egmmkmaa_staos03ccschn1oh...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
