I have an application that was running fine until just recently. Now when I
do a DIR command, most of the tables display 'Not a Fox table/DBF'. Can
anyone tell me how to fix these files and what might have caused this? This
is in FPW26.

Thanks.

Doug Allan

("cross posting" = "no no" makes it hard for YOU to get a good answer, and
others to see what's already been suggested)

First off; on the universalthread, there's a file "ATFIXDBFFPT" that works ok.
it does some basic header repairs.
next there's a util from abri.com (recover) that seems nice.
FoxFix works great, and is what I use & recommend.
if the tables are failry small when zipp'd up -- you can email them to

Hi Doug,

Did you, by any chance, use these same Tables in VFP?

Best regards,
Tom

Hi Tom.

Thanks for your reply. These files are from a client's program and I did
have the thought that maybe somebody there opened them and converted them to
VFP. I use VFP 6 here and tried opening them with VFP 6 but get the same
message, Not a Fox table/DBF.

Doug

Sounds like the headers are blown. I have a utility (I think I downloaded it,
but I'm not sure), called HeadFix that will examine the headers, report any
problems it finds, and fixes them. My users had a really bad habit of rebooting
right in the middle of entering/updating records. This took care of it (along
with a few meetings with the users).
If you can't find it, contact me, and I will send you a copy.

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Jack (I hat computrs)
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