Data Corrupted - Record out of range error

[Cinfysue]

Hello, one of my customers has a Foxpro DOS 2.6 application and when he tries to run it, he gets a data is corrupted message. When he tries to run the data repair option built into the application, it gives him a record out of range error. Where would I start to try and assist him? We do not have the source code and I am most familiar with Visual Foxpro. Any ideas you can provide would be most appreciated.

Thanks, CJ

 

[1oldfoxman]

Most times I've seen the record out of range error is caused by an unsynched index. Do you have access to the 2.6 software to rebuild the index(es)? I'm guessing rebuilding them with VFP will render them unuseable by v2.6, but I've not tried that before.

Most likely the "data repair option" in the application is trying to do exactly this, so it may not help anyway. But I would start with the indexes.

hope this helps,
dennis

 

[Cinfysue]

Thank you so much for taking the time to respond. I will give that a try. Have a great weekend, CJ