| Is your DBF file inaccessible and unusable? Are you | | | | including virus infection, improper system shutdown, |
| unable to open the DBF file and extract stored data | | | | application crash, file system errors, hard drive I/O |
| from it? This problem generally occurs due to corrupt | | | | errors, and more. |
| index of DBF file. The DBF file index may be corrupt | | | | Resolution: |
| because of numerous reasons, such as application | | | | Try out the below methods to Repair DBF File and fix |
| malfunction and improper system shutdown. In FoxPro | | | | this problem: |
| 2.6 and earlier versions, you can fix such problems by | | | | Use GenDBC.prg utility to re-create the Visual FoxPro |
| simply erasing IDX/CDX files and re-creating them. But, | | | | database structure and the database indexes. After |
| in Visual FoxPro, you cannot do this and face critical | | | | that, restore data back to every table. |
| data loss problem. In order to extract your precious | | | | Restore corrupted index files using the below steps: |
| data from DBF file in such cases, DBF Recovery is | | | | Create a database table and table's indexes. Bind the |
| the best way to go for. | | | | table to database. |
| Under Visual FoxPro environment, you cannot remove | | | | Backup CDX file of newly created table. |
| the CDX file once the DBF table is bound to the | | | | Copy backup CDX file to the damaged CDX file of |
| database and has Primary index. If you try to remove | | | | the table. |
| the CDX file in such scenarios, you receive the | | | | Open Visual FoxPro table and run "Reindex" |
| following error message: | | | | command. |
| "Primary key property is invalid, please validate | | | | If you are still facing the same problem, use DBF repair |
| database" | | | | software to repair and restore the corrupt DBF |
| The above error occurs while opening the DBF table | | | | database. The applications repair DBF database in a |
| again in Visual FoxPro database. Furthermore, you | | | | quick, safe, and easy manner using read-only |
| encounter the below error message while re-creating | | | | algorithms and interactive graphical user interface. |
| an index on a removed CDX file, which has only | | | | DBF Recovery is a result-oriented utility to effectively |
| candidate, unique, regular index: | | | | handle all DBF corruption situations. The software |
| "Invalid database - please validate database" | | | | works well with Visual FoxPro 6.0 to 9.0 and dBase III |
| Cause: | | | | to V. It restores all corrupt objects of DBF file such as |
| You may come across this behavior of Visual FoxPro | | | | index, primary key, column data type, table name, and |
| database due to corrupt index or corrupt DBF files. | | | | column name. |
| Corruption can be the outcome of various reasons, | | | | |