Data corruption

[Joe Chasan]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 01:05:22PM -0500, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> Quoting Don Coleman (Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:35:51 -0500):
> 
> > Client had a hard drive fail over the weekend.  I have identified some data
> > corruption in an archive file at this point.  Most of the corrupted records
> > are in small batches of 20-50 records although a few are single individual
> > records.  I am unable to delete the corrupted records (nothing happens on
> > the screen).  Is there any way to get rid of these?  The hard drive failed
> > during the backup and I can piece the data together if I can eliminate the
> > corrupted records.
> >
> > Windows 2003 server, fPv5.0.13, WIN2000 & WINXP Pro clients.
> 
> Depending on how the records are corrupted, filePro may think that they
> are already deleted.  In that case, update the records to create them
> and then delete them again.

since this keeps coming up every few months, would it be a big deal for
fp to write the record space out with blanks, then delete it, instead of 
just assuming it is empty/already deleted and not doing anything?
 
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