Title: What to do when you are facing corruption issues in the MS Visual FoxPro 6.0 DBF file
Question: Are you creating an application in MS Visual FoxPro in which you have used dBase as the backend support? If yes, then are you finding some problems while opening a form that contains many tables in the background?
Answer:
Are you creating an application in MS Visual FoxPro in which you have used dBase as the backend support? If yes, then are you finding some problems while opening a form that contains many tables in the background? If still yes, then there is a possibility that this problem is because of some incorrect settings in the form. You should find that out and fix the problem. However, if the problem does not solve then the DBF database file corruption may be the reason behind this. In such cases, you should to use a third-party DBF Repair software to repair DBF file.
Let us consider a practical situation in which you are using MS Visual FoxPro 6.0 to create an application for college project. In this application, you have created a form having more than one tables in the environment. You have saved the tables in same drive as the Visual FoxPro form. However, when you deploy the form, it fails to do so. An error message is generated in the process, which is similar to the following message:
Error instantiating cursor object. Could not find (table file name).
Cause:
The root cause of this problem is that the path for the database table in FoxPro as saved as a relative path in the data environment.
Resolution:
To resolve this problem, you should perform either of the following methods:
Manually modify the .SCX file: The .SCX file is the file that is used by the forms in Visual FoxPro. This can be done using the following steps:
? Use the SCX file as a table while including the .SCX as its extension. For instance, USE form.scx.
? Browse the SCX file and double-click on the 'Class' memo field to make both the memo field window and the browse window visible.
? Check the records in the browse window to find the 'cursor' value.
? Modify the 'CursorSource' property in the Properties memo field window to make it a full path.
? Double-click the Properties memo field in the browse window.
Recreate the form: You should try to create the form in a different drive other than the one in which you have stored the table.
Try to reproduce the steps that caused the error message previously. If the problem is appearing again, it means that the DBF file is corrupt. Such cases can be resolved by using a third-party DBF file repair software. These DBF recovery tools are highly interactive in nature that do not modify the existing DBF files in the recovery process.
Stellar Phoenix DBF Recovery is one of the best DBF repair software that repairs DBF database files created for MS Visual FoxPro 6.0-9.0 versions and dBase III-V versions. Compatible with Windows 7, Vista, Server 2003, XP, and 2000, this DBF file repair utility recovers DBF objects such as table name, column name, column data type, indexes, primary keys, etc.