Memo field issue

[Kenneth Brody]

On 12/6/2010 2:32 PM, Steve Wiltsie wrote:
> I have a customer running filePro 5.0.14 on a Windows 2003 server.
> Everything has been going well for quite some time until I tried to see
> if a Memo field would provide something I needed in one of the files.
> It didn't solve the problem so I deleted the field.

How, exactly, did you delete the memo field?

> Today I needed to add 24 new fields to the file.  The ddefine process
> seemed to go properly on this file with 2 qualifiers but now the new
> fields have corrupted data in them that look like graphic lines and some
> of the other fields at the end of each record seem to be "scrambled".

All of the 24 new fields, or just the one that was in the same place as the 
previous memo field?

> I have a backup that was done just before adding the new fields but I'm
> wondering now if something special needs to be done to allow for the
> Memo field that used to be in the same part of the map.

If you do it again, and it ends up with "garbage" again, contact fpsupport 
and arrange to send files to demonstrate.

> Is it possible to delete a memo field from a file without causing
> problems?
>
> Should I put all new fields for that file in the Data segment?


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Kenneth Brody