Filepro 5.0.08DN9; DDefine has stopped working; Windows 7 (I think..)

[Kahler, Rachel]

Upfront - I apologize for the length of this description of my problem.

I am NOT a programmer, never professed to be...

However, I have used File Pro for nearly 25 years, very minimally in the past 15 years.

While adding fields to my Define Files "P1" file, I pressed "Escape" and was asked something about something is bigger that something, "do I wish to SHRINK IT" - I have ALWAYS said no to this as I had a disaterous result when pressing "y" MANY, MANY years ago.  I chose "n".

The computer showed "restructuring...................." for a moment and then displayed:
Ddefine.exe has stopped working
A problem caused the program to stop working correctly.  Windows will close the program and notify you ..................................".  [close program].

Below that on the same screen was displayed:  "The instructions at 0043a02F referenced memory at 00000004.  The memory could not be read from ______________________".  Blank spaces were shown in blue....

I waited for something more to happen and after a few minutes I clicked on the "close program" box.

NOW, when I try to go to "Define Files" under the Creation Operations on my Filepro Menu, I get the dreaded "A filepro error has occurred  on file: P1
Segment lengths do not match.  Key and Data segments contain differing number of records.

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"press continue"

Then, I get this:

Cannot open file:
On File:  \APPL\filepro/P1/key
On File: P1

So, I go to the FP Manual online and find that this is error code # 050.  It tells me to "Use the Expand File option to expand file by 1 record to synchronize the Key & Data segments.  If that does not work restore file from backup".

Did I mention that I DO NOT have a backup?!!?!!!

The P1 file is a file in which I have personnel information........

Now, before I left the Define Files, I printed a hardcopy of all of my fields.  I see that I have 295 fields in this file.  It is printed at the bottom of this page: "Key segment record length:  386
         Data segment record length: 2702

I can get to my Define Screens P1 file and decided to panic later.  I entered in all of the new fields # 203 - 242  (I did not plug in all of the new fields).  I then go to F8 Cursor Path and proceed to add the new fields.  When I hit escape I am shown Field # 203 is not on this screen - it says this for all of the new fields I just added.  I can't get out of this function until I delete all fields that I just added......................

I then go to A. Expand Files and when I choose file P1, I immediately get the Filepro error:  -Define Files Function Running on this File.  - File not available.  _ somebody else is modifying this file; try again later.

Hey, I've seen this before and know how to solve it - I go to ?Filepro Directory (under the Runtime Operations column on my FP menu), highlight P1 and press enter.  I get a display on the screen that shows "Key & Data Segments Uneven, press enter

And am returned to the box with my Files (backup one screen).

I also look up the Data and Key file in the C:/APPL/filepro directory and see that the size of the KEY is 93kb and that the size of the DATA is 492kb.

Am I totally screwed?  There is 15 years of information in this file...........

As I said at the beginning, I am NOT a programmer,  and have not done any real "programming" in over 15 years.  I pretty much am self-taught and know enough to be dangerous!

If after laughing your butts off you have the strength to help me, please reply in very basic LAYMAN's terms.

Thx!
RK





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