Corrupt Key and Data Segment...lengths do not match

[Brad Weaver]

I have a client who today decided to modify a field length.  Naturally, he
killed the lockfile and just went right in not checking to see if all other
users were out.  They weren't.  He modified the file then chose to shrink
the key and data segments.  While that was happening another user was still
in and the file got corrupted.  I've done a lot of research through the
newsgroup and I haven't found much positive to tell my customer.  To make
matters worse his backups have not been running since May.  Is there any way
to access the data for recovery?  I've been able to build a map of the key
in a new file called KEYONLY and move the key file over and see it but I
can't do the same with the Data file.  Since the two files have different
numbers of records now I'm not even sure how I'd match up the two segments
even if I could retrieve them both separately and then import them back to a
new combined file.

Suggestions are MOST welcome!

Brad Weaver
President

ComputerAid International
Toronto, ON    (416) 628-3140
Versailles, KY (859) 873-2515
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