Help! Corrupted Paradox Tables

Woolf

Delphi Developer

Wed, 18 Jun 1902 08:00:00 GMT

Help! Corrupted Paradox Tables

We have a rather interesting situation here as what we suspect to be the
Password being wiped out, but the Database still encrypted as according to
the original Password. As a result, we are able to access the data, but
they all come out unintelligible.

We have gone through Randy Beck's page and have tried to force in a
Password to correct the entire situation, but all these efforts seem
futile.

Anyone with any ideas please help.

Thanx in advance.

Woolf

Sundial Servic

Delphi Developer

Wed, 18 Jun 1902 08:00:00 GMT

Re:Help! Corrupted Paradox Tables

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In article <01bc7c15$3add7280$00888888@ds_server> "Woolf" <hs...@pc.jaring.my> writes:
>We have a rather interesting situation here as what we suspect to be the
>Password being wiped out, but the Database still encrypted as according to
>the original Password. As a result, we are able to access the data, but
>they all come out unintelligible.
>We have gone through Randy Beck's page and have tried to force in a
>Password to correct the entire situation, but all these efforts seem
>futile.

I can tell you, as a person who completely understands (!) the entire Paradox
encryption mechanism (!!), that if you are getting unintelligible data after
the password has been accepted, you have a corrupted table simple-as-that.

The ciphering mechanism used by BDE is sensitive to any changes to the
underlying data and will render any corrupted block as the gibberish you see.

I'd look for physical I/O errors of some kind in this case.

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