Hi Mark,
There is a utility for repairing Paradox tables floating around
somewhere. I believe it is called tutil<something>.exe - I'll see if I
can hunt it down for you. The other option is to use the Table Repair
utility in Paradox, if that is available.
Rgards,
Bevan
Mark Howard wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> My users have had the occaisional problem with Paradox table and
> or index corruption - normally caused by a power outage or
> someone running a backup with the databse open.
>
> In the past I have been able to fix things most of the time by
> deleting the index files and then redefining the primary and
> secondary index's, using the DBD.
>
> This hasn't always worked - and hasn't in the current case. What
> is the best way of dealing with this problem?
>
> Also, on a similar topic, would it be good, bad or indifferent
> practice to programatically delete and rebuild the index's each
> time the application opens, to keep them clean. (Or is that a
> dumb question?)
>
> Can you repack tables programatically? How?
>
> Thanks
>
> Mark
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