Restore Damaged Dbf Databases Easily

By Author: Peter Dagen
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Are you reading this article because your DBF database will not open after a recent application failure? Do you remember what it felt like when you suddenly saw that hours and even days of typing data were gone with the damaged database? Try and recall what it was like to re-type all figures again. These situations are more common in the office than one can think. If you cannot open the database right now, had a hardware or system crash that corrupted the database, or suffered from a virus attack, you also probably wish you could have an easy tool to bring what was corrupted back to life hands down. Well, with Smart DBF Repair, that's exactly what you can do.

DBF Repair can help you fix a damaged DBF database quickly and automatically, so you do not have to do any typing, or hire a recovery expert to recover data for money. The program is made for ordinary users who just want their data back without having to do anything manual. The database file can be in any format, the program recovers all of them, including files produced in dBase III/IV, FoxPro, and Visual FoxPro. To ...
... begin, you need to download and install Smart DBF Repair. It's not freeware, but the 30-day evaluation version lets you see the results of recovery, so you can be sure that your database can be recovered if you buy the full version.

So when the crash does occur, that's when Smart DBF Repair does its wonderful job. Let's say you discover that your database is damaged and won't open. No problem. Launch the DBF recovery tool. Choose the damaged database via the interface or drag and drop that file onto the program, choose the destination folder and start the recovery. The program analyzes DBF data records and database structure, and then accurately recovers all headers and data records down to the smallest bit. In this process, the program relies entirely on its own mechanisms, not on external drivers like ODBC and BDE. The recovered database is saved to the output folder you selected during the setup.

If you remember the pain of re-entering all data into a new database from scratch, you already know this is not something you ever want to experience again. Or maybe you do not want to give your data into the hands of a recovery engineer as it contains confidential information. Either way, Smart DBF Repair is a tool you want. The $79.95 download version will save you nerves, days of re-entering and dollars when the database gets damaged.