Error when opening dbf file: External table is not in expected format

Published by Jacob Martin on May 9, 2015

DBF is a file format that is used in Dbase and FoxPro database. This can be usually opened in Microsoft excel or access. Generally the DBF files are utilized to organize data such as financial records, product inventories and customer list in every sector like organizations, companies and educational institutions etc. Whereas database file was initially the best selling software titles but it ended up losing major market value when the programs like Microsoft Access and FoxPro has been introduced. Mots of the times all these files contains some information that are confidential to particular company or organization. But there occurs some situations which never remain stable and you might lose your DBf file present in your computer due to several reasons and appear some error message which states:

Error when opening dbf file: External table is not in expected format.

This type error message comes up when your DBF database generally becomes corrupted or gone damaged. When asuch error message occurs, you are unabel to access any of your data and without repairing it, you will get such type of error messages poping-up. But before repairing this error messages, it is important to know the reasons for getting this error message. Some of the reasons are mentioned below:

Unintened deletion of DBF files: When you want to clean your system from unnecessary files then you also delete some other unwanted files from it. But during selecting the files, you may select important DBF file and delete it with the unnecessary files. But you can get the deleted files from recycle bin but if you have change the settings of the recycle bin by making the files not get redirected to it or if you use “Shift + Delete” keys at the time of deletion then the deleted files will not be stored in it.

Deletion of files through Windows DOS: For some particular file, many users make use of command Prompt to search when they are unable to find via graphical user interface. But at the same time, you may also accidentally delete the important database files. However the files which are deleted by using Windows DOS do not get placed in Recycle Bin and so you will lose your important files from your system.

Virus infection: Your computer may get infected with virus and when such happens then its speed is reduced and it makes you wait for long time to open a single file. Therefore users should scan the system regularly so that your database can be safe from getting infected otherwise virus will spread widely and DBf file along with some other files will also be deleted.

Solution:

So to repair the DBF error “Error when opening dbf file: External table is not in expected format”, you should use recovery software which can fix the error of DBF file in seconds. You should use DBF File Repair tool which is an excellent repair tool to repair DBF error files. This is one of the best repair tool which can help you to get rid if such DBF error and it is used to recover the damaged database back to its original conditions. This is user friendly solution to recover the deleted or lost DBF files that does not require any technical skills. Along with DBf files, you can also recover MDB and ACCDB database on windows computer. This software also features indestructibility and it does not change the files that you have saved in storage device. Hence this software provides wizard-driven interface to ensure users of any level of experience can very easily and quickly recover the deleted or lost data from storage device.

Steps to fix DBF File Error:

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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