Re: Memo field repair

2012-11-12 Thread Alan Bourke
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012, at 06:33 PM, Ted Roche wrote: What's the current guidance on memo field repair? It depends on how mangled it is. I normally: select recno() as rec, * from bustedtable into dbf temp Then edit the structure of the damaged table, removing the memo-type fields

Re: Memo field repair

2012-11-11 Thread MB Software Solutions, LLC
On 11/10/2012 4:10 PM, Dan Covill wrote: On 11/10/12 10:33, Ted Roche wrote: What's the current guidance on memo field repair? Doesn't Doug Hennig's Stonefield Toolkit have some Memo field repair functions in it? I think it salvages pointers, but doesn't fix data. -- Mike Babcock, MCP MB

Re: Memo field repair

2012-11-10 Thread MB Software Solutions, LLC
On 11/10/2012 1:33 PM, Ted Roche wrote: We grabbed a copy of one client's data today and an attempt to PACK the DBF resulted in Missing or invalid memo error. We downloaded a second copy to confirm it's the data and not a bad copy. What's the current guidance on memo field repair? When I

Re: Memo field repair

2012-11-10 Thread Dan Covill
On 11/10/12 10:33, Ted Roche wrote: What's the current guidance on memo field repair? Doesn't Doug Hennig's Stonefield Toolkit have some Memo field repair functions in it? Dan ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http