Are you reading this article because your DBF file will not open after a recent system failure? Do you remember what it was like when you suddenly saw that hours and even days of entering data were gone with the corrupt database? Try and remember what it felt like to re-type all data again. These situations are more common in the office than you can imagine. If you cannot access the database right now, had a hardware or system crash that damaged the database, or suffered from a virus attack, you also probably wish you would 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 restore a corrupt DBF file quickly and automatically, so you do not have to do any typing, or hire a recovery engineer to restore data for money. The utility is made for ordinary users who just need their database back without having to do anything manual. The database file can be in any format, the utility restores all of them, including files created in dBase III/IV, FoxPro, and Visual FoxPro. To start, you need to download and install Smart DBF Repair. It's not free, but the 30-day evaluation version lets you see the results of recovery, so you can be sure that your data can be recovered if you buy the full version.

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

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

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Peter Dagen regularly uses an DBF Repair software when he needs to fix damaged dbf databases

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