Tips to keep your DBF file secure and damage free!

Published by Jacob Martin on November 17, 2014

DBF is the file extension that is used for database file created in FoxBASE, Visual FoxPro and FoxPro.  Same as other files and programs, this application also get damaged or corrupted due several unavoidable reasons. The database file may get corrupted due to virus attack, improper system shutdown, media corruption, hardware failure, bad sector available in disk, accidental deletion or removal, etc. These causes may not only damage, corrupt or delete the DBF file but it also interrupts your normal workflow.

Nonetheless, you cannot prevent the file from being getting damaged or corrupt, but you can take necessary steps to avoid such issues such as:

1 – Always save DBF file properly – There can be many occasions where you complete creating a DBF file but you forget to save it properly. Always, open the file right after saving just to check that your file was saved properly. Never shut down the application in middle of the save process (by using Task manager) and also do not hard boot your system while the file is open.

2 – Create Backup – Creating and storing the backup of files helps to recover your data when you suffer from any unexpected data loss. People generally forget to create a backup of their important data. Hence, make a backup of your DBF file on hard drive or on any external hard drive like pen drive.

3 – Make Online Backup – You e-mail important files or folder as an attachment from one email account to another. But you can also save that attachments and save in online drafts folders. Similarly look for any online backup for DBF file too.

So, if you follow the above tips, then it sure that you will not face any data loss issues and hence you will lose your important information. But what if you forget to save files or creating backup?

For example suppose, you have created a very important DBF file in FoxBASE that you wanted to be displayed in an office presentation. But while you were going through some last moment editions, unexpectedly your computer shut down. After when you switched on your system, you found that sudden shutdown of computer has corrupted your DBF file. And now you are not able to rescue the data from the corrupt DBF file. So at such cases what you need to do so that you can easily get back your created DBF file and present it in office.

At such cases, you can opt for third party DBF Repair tool. it is one of the easy to use tool that repairs the damaged/corrupted DBF files and  recovers all possible data without ant hassle. The tool comes in trial version so, that you can know more about the features and functionalities before you purchase the full version. It works well and supports all version of DBMS application like Dbase III, IV, V, VI and VII. Ii is the perfect tool for complete Dbase corruption issues.

Steps to to keep your DBF file secure and damage free:

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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