INFO: Third Party Utility Repairs FoxPro Record and Memo Data (189458)

The information in this article applies to:

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

This article was previously published under Q189458

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:

156581 PRB: INSERT Can Freeze VFP if Table's Index File Corrupted

168762 HOWTO: Fixing Index Corruption at Run Time with Visual FoxPro

172086 PRB: Data Corruption with Row Buffering in Visual FoxPro 3.0

164385 BUG: Large Result Sets May Become Corrupted in VFP

Modification Type:	Major	Last Reviewed:	9/5/2006
Keywords:	kb3rdparty kbinfo KB189458