Common Causes of DBF File Corruption in Visual FoxPro

Visual FoxPro is designed by Microsoft. It is an application that is famous for its data-centric procedural and object oriented programming language. All the data stored in this application are in DBF file.DBF stand for Database File. One can restore data from DBF by queries command. But in some cases, DBF files get corrupted and in this case you will not be able to access data from it. When this happen it causes huge and sensitive data loss.

There is several uncountable numbers of reasons behind DBF file corruption in Visual FoxPro. Some of the common causes of data corruption that occur in Visual FoxPro are mentioned below:

• Harmful Virus/Malware attack – It is one of the primary factors that can easily corrupt any data including your DBF file. Hence, it is recommended that you must use quality anti-virus and scan your system regularly.
• Applications confliction – Sometimes third party applications confliction with Visual FoxPro can result in DBF corruption.
• Bad Sector – The hard drive where your DBF files is stored, contain bad sector then it will easily damage your data. Hence it is suggested that you must check your hard drive for errors and fragmentation.
• Sudden or improper exit of Visual FoxPro – This can happen due to power failure, system crash, sudden system shutdown, voltage fluctuations, internal application error and page faults.
• Faulty or low quality network device – As Visual FoxPro deals data too quickly, it may hamper your network. Such network device may include network cables, interface cards, switches, network drivers and hubs.
• Network settings and service pack – Check network settings such as disk caching on client computer. You may also switch drivers of network. Also make sure that the database servers have the latest service pack.
• File locking issues – If one user locks the memo files of table of DBF file and other users tries to access the same database table and then access the memo field then he might open the memo file with incorrect blocksize. It can easily lead to memo file corruption.

In any of the above mentioned cases, the DBF files get damaged and it becomes inaccessible. In some cases, if the corruption is severe then you will not be able to open even Visual FoxPro application. In such situations, one can take help of third party tool commonly known as DBF file repair tool.

How to fix DBF File Corruption in Visual FoxPro

DBF File Repair Tool is one of the popular and appropriate software that is designed to repair corrupted DBF file and recovers them effectively. This tool is incorporated with highly-advanced algorithm that ensures DBF recovery in all DBF corruption cases. This software support Visual FoxPro 6.0-9.0 and dBase III-V. It is very powerful and advanced software that easily extract all DBF file objects such as tables, column names, queries, primary keys, column data types and indexes.

Steps to Repair and Recover DBF file of Visual FoxPro

Step 1: Download, Install and Run DBF File Repair software.

Step 2: Then you need to select database application and database file to repair and then click on the ‘Start Scan’ button to start the scanning process.

Step 3: Then scanning process is in progress, if you want to stop it then click on ‘Stop’ button.

Step 4: Then you need to select the destination path by clicking brows button from dialogue box. And press ‘OK’ button.

Step 5: Then you need to select the database by clicking ‘Brows’ button in which you want to save the recovered data of DBF file. And click on ‘Finish’ button.

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