I have a client who received an error message while introducing my FoxPro application, Foxpro v9.0 error msg: "unfamiliar database format".
My client told that there is a power failure and the problem appears after rebooting the PC.
It appears that the FoxPro database was caused by corruption failure.
As long as you have a VFP It basically opens a low-level file, checks the entire file size, detects the record size, and resets the record count. I have a customer who is still going to VFP apps, and once in a great time, they have power outages / surges / network connectivity problems and corrupt the headers. They run back into this routine and business ...