DBF File Repair Tool: A New Tool That Repairs DBF File Data in Minutes.

Published by Jacob Martin on December 6, 2013

DBF is abbreviation for database file and it is used in database applications such as MS FoxPro database application. Files that contain this extension are known as standard file. It is used to store data in a tubular format. It provides features the helps to manipulate data in an efficient manner. It helps user to manage large amount of data. MS FoxPro database only provides interface but original task is done by database files. All the information that is entered through database application is stored in these files.

All kinds of data modifying operations like to fetch data from database, storing it , editing it and removing it by using any database application that are actually done on the data are stored in the database file. It is popular file because it offers many features and protection to store data in it such as it provides data redundancy, data sharing, data independence, multiple views of data, concurrency control, it provides many keys like foreign key, primary and secondary key facility that help to protect data duplication.

When DBF file gets corrupted then it gets difficult to access important and useful data. In order to find out causes of corruption in these files it is important to find out reasons behind the corruption of these files.  And if user identifies the reasons behind file corruption then he can protect these files from getting corrupted. The possible causes of corruption are given bellow-

• It may be corrupted due to virus or Trojan attack. It can be protected by using update antivirus program.
• If database application such as visual FoxPro gets faulty, then the file become inaccessible or gets corrupted.
• It also gets corrupted due to if other application program collides with database application program.
• It also gets corrupted due to the software such as antivirus, screen saver or hardware such as cable, hubs malfunction.
• It may also get corrupted due to the Outdated or faulty database program. To avoid this situation always use updated database program.
• It may get corrupt due to hard drive crashing or failure of hard drive.

It is a very panic situation when these files get corrupted because it cannot be accessed. The user is totally dependent on to the MS FoxPro database application and it is unable to fetch or retrieve data if it is corrupted. To avoid such as situation it is essential to keep a backup of these files and when the original file is corrupted then it can be restored by using repair tool.

DBF File Repair Tool is very powerful and effective it can retrieve the entire corrupted database file without damaging any data. This tool provides very easy interface so that even beginners can also recover his/her corrupted database file by the help of this tool. So if one is unable to access database file then it is suggested to install this repair tool software and recover all database file easily. This tool can also recover all components that included in these files such as column name, table name, and data types of all columns, Binary indexes, Indexes, primary key, candidate key, foreign key, unique key, and regular key. Some of the benefits that file repair tool provides are- it repairs corrupted files that is created in dBase III, dBase IV, and dBase V. It also recovers all the content of a file like objects, data types, column name, table name etc. this software is also capable to recover various data type that are added to dbf file such as Blob field, Varbinary, Varchar, Varchar (binary), and Integer Auto Inc. it also allows to view, clear, or save the log report of repair processes. This tool can also recover the database component that including in dbf file.

Steps to recover corrupted DBF files

A complete set of instructions on how to use and work with this file repair tool is explained below. So, go through it thoroughly before attempting the file repair process:

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

Step 2: Select database application and database file to repair and Click on the ‘Start Scan’ button to start the scanning process.

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

Step 4: Select destination path by clicking brows button from dialogue box. And press ‘OK’ button.

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

These are the step wise instruction by the help of which helps to recover corrupt dbf files in few minutes without any requirement additional technical knowledge.