Re: Flexfile Memos

Does any chance do the individual "memos" contain an identifier that
would indicate the record that the memo is for (e.g. notes for an
account has that account number imbedded in it)? If so, you can low
level read the .DBV file and extract the text, and programmatically
rebuild the pointers by writing the text back to the MEMO field.

Since the pointers will be corrupt, make sure as you rebuild the
DBF/DBV link you start with a new .DBV, as you don't want to overwrite
the old text, since FlexFile will re-use empty space.

This can be a very messy process, so if you have it available to you, I
would recommend doing a tape restore of the .DBF/.DBV before the
pointers were lost (since all clients follow good backup procedures ;-)

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