Tips to Resolve “Unable to get header” Error Message

Published by Jacob Martin on April 2, 2015

DBase header file structure is divided into several bytes and each of them save some serious information about the file. However corruption is a header file which can occur because of several reasons which includes virus infection, improper system shutdown, and application malfunction and due to modification in hex-editor. When the file header gets corrupted due to the reasons mentioned above, the file becomes unreadable. In fact users also come across this error message during the opening of file. Therefore to overcome the DBF header corruption, you should restore the file from a copy of its backup if you have. But when there is no backup available with you or your backup file restoring incomplete data then there in only option left and that is to repair the damaged DBF file. However to do so, user needs to use a third party software which can backup all the data.

But before that it is important to clear out the above case. For an instance, you come across the below mentioned error message as attempting to access a DBF file created in dBase:

‘Unable to get header’

When the above error pops-up, the data that is saved in file gets inaccesible and users are unable to perform any task. Also this error message pops up every-time when trying to access DBF file.

Cause:

The above error messages generally occur because of the corruption of DBF file.

Resolution:

However to overcome the error message of DBF file and to repair the DBF file corruption, you should do the following that is mentioned above.

• First you should restore the data from an up to date backup file
• But when there is no DBF backup file available them you need to repair the corrupt DBF file by using a commercial DBF Repair utility.

So when there is no backup then the best option to utilize is DBF file repair tool application which is a safe repair technique to repair the corrupt DBF files systematically. With the help of this repair tool, you will be sure that the original data is saved in the DBF file and it remains undamaged and also does not modified during the repair process. It has interactive user interface which makes them self-explanatory and also user friendly.

DBF file repair tool is a powerful tool which is generally used to fix the corruption issue of DBF file created in several database like dBase III, dBase IV, and dBase V, MS Visual FoxPro 7.0, MS Visual FoxPro 8.0, MS Visual FoxPro 9 irrespective of their cause of corruption. DBF file creates a new DBF file where all the data which is extracted from the corrupt database is saved. This repair tool is read only software and so it does not modify the original file and hence it can be installed on Windows 7, 2000, 2003, Vista and XP.

Steps to Resolve “Unable to get header” Error Message:

Step 1: Fisrtly you need to 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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