key and data segments do not match

[Jeff Harrison]

--- On Thu, 7/24/08, Jose Lerebours <fp at fpgroups.com> wrote:
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I just received a call from a very old friend of mine.  He is having problems where the error message

key and data segments do not match 

or something to that effect is given when he tries to access a file.  I have not seen this in such a long time I can only speculate that it means

"the map was changed by using vi while file is segmented between key and data thus causing map + data association to be corrupt"

OR

"an old copy of the map was restored overriding the earlier map and the restored map file does not match data segments"

Whatever the reason, I wonder, what is the way out of this one?

Regards,


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Jose Lerebours
http://www.fpgroups.com
954-559-7186
filePro + PHP Solution Developer
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Yes, it could be a bad map, or it could be a good map and either the key or data seg has been damaged so that they no longer contain the same # of records.  This can usually be fixed by mapping an alien map to the segments individually, then create a new filelepro file with the desired combined fields - as in the original - then post the aliens back into this.

Good Luck.

Jeff Harrison
jeffaharrison at yahoo.com

Author of JHImport and JHExport. The fastest and easiest ways to import and export with filepro.