INFO: Third Party Utility Repairs FoxPro Record and Memo Data

ID: Q189458

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft FoxPro for Macintosh, version 2.6a
Microsoft FoxPro for Windows, version 2.6a
Microsoft FoxPro for MS-DOS, version 2.6a
Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows, versions 3.0, 3.0b, 5.0, 5.0a

SUMMARY

This article points to the address of a Web site for FoxPro table and memo file repair utilities.

Recover 2.0 is manufactured by Abri Technologies - Software Products & Services, a vendor independent of Microsoft; we make no warranty, implied or otherwise, regarding this product's performance or reliability.

NOTE: Please backup any files before using these products.

MORE INFORMATION

There are four FoxPro table repair tools offered for a fee and the following Web site offers demo information:

http://abri.com/recover.html

-and-

http://www.abri.com/

One of the options allows developers to distribute the table repair product in a distributed .exe file. A list of these files follows:

Runrec5.zip
RecovWin.zip
RecovDos.zip

To download the Recover.exe demo, select the appropriate link for your FoxPro platform.

Here is a list of the files that may be downloaded:


   FoxPro Version        File Name
   -------------------------------

   Visual FoxPro 5       vfp5demo.zip
   Visual FoxPro 3       vfp3demo.zip
   FoxPro/Win            fpwdemo.zip
   FoxPro/DOS            fpddemo.zip
   FoxPro/Mac            fpmdemo.hqx

REFERENCES

For additional information, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q87665 Utilities to Repair Corrupt Memo Field Data

Q107520 FIX: Memo Field Corruption Occurs with Code Page Differences

Q120545 dSALVAGE Professional Version 4.2: Overview and Features

Q145670 How to Recover a Corrupted FoxPro for Macintosh .DBF File

Q156581 PRB: INSERT Can Freeze VFP if Table's Index File Corrupted

Q168762 HOWTO: Fixing Index Corruption at Run Time with Visual FoxPro

Q172086 PRB: Data Corruption with Row Buffering in Visual FoxPro 3.0

Q164385 BUG: Large Result Sets May Become Corrupted in VFP

Q99557 PRB: FoxPro Corruption Problems Fixed by Novell 3.11 Patches

Additional query words: kbVFp300 kbVFp500 kbVFp500a kb3rdparty

Keywords : kb3rdparty
Version : MACINTOSH:2.6a; MS-DOS:2.6a; WINDOWS:2.6a,3.0,3.0b,5.0,5.0a
Platform : MACINTOSH MS-DOS WINDOWS
Issue type : kbinfo