Re: VFP open table corruption

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The only time I've seen a DBF that thoroughly and completely horked is from
a client who FAILED TO MENTION that they'd just switched their file-server
to a Linux-based NAS storage system, and nobody there knew anything at all
about Linux.

Hope they have good backups!

Dan

Neil Waterworth wrote:
Hi,

I've had my fair share of header corruption, index corruption, etc,
but got a corrupted table today which was almost impressive in its
destruction.
Table was open shared, approx 40 users had it open, and suddenly
everything went nuts - apps crashing everywhere. Tried to open the
table and it reported corruption, so opened it in a text editor. The
header was almost intact, but every data byte had been converted to
chr(0) - approx 8,300 records. Abri recover rightly just pointed and
laughed.
Has anyone ever had anything similar? I'm not sure where to start
looking because there are around 5 separate apps which use that
table, and all were in use at the time.

The network is having a few problems I admit, but I've never seen a
file zeroed like that before.

VFP 8/9. Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Neil


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