Subject Re: Repair a corrupted DBT file From Tim Ward <tim@goldengrovenurserydotcodotuk> Date Sat, 27 Mar 2021 19:03:03 +0000 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started > Bit 4 seems to be a bigger number if the text I need is more > but I couldn't quite see the correlation. > > I can delete unnecessary data manually but it's be easier to automate it. > > thanks Tim Hi Mervyn I had another go at this and the bit value at position 4 was showing the length of the 'real' data. It was just a bit muddled and hard to see where the end was as extra data from other records had been appended to various blocks as a result of the corruption I think. Anyway all recovered thanks to your code. Now on to implement a better backup regime. Thanks Tim