Help System

• On-Line help is available at every stage of operation

Command-Line Diagnostics

• Checks the health of your data files from the DOS prompt or from within a batch file
• dSalvage Professional supports wild-cards and pathing
• Produces a report for screen display or redirection to a file. The report contains a one-line statement for each file checked indicating whether or not the file is healthy

Internal Diagnostics

• Checks the disk for the existence of cross-linking or lost cluster damage in the File Allocation Table and provide an on-screen report of its findings
• Allows immediate repair if problems are discovered, then goes on to diagnose the user-specified data file resulting in a detailed on-screen diagnostic report of all errors found together with a recovery recommendation
• Recovery involves only a few keystrokes in most cases
• Proper diagnosis is a critical element in file recovery since symptoms observed while in your application do not always reflect the true damage situation. Improper recovery processes can compound damage and make recovery more difficult or impossible

Memo Repair

• Enables automatic repair of all common forms of memo-related damage including corrupt "next-free-block" pointers in memo files as well as memo field pointer corruption in the DBF files
• The memoscan routine checks all memo fields for corrupt pointers -- pointers that point beyond the end of the memo file, and pointers that define invalid memo file locations
• Complex damage forms can be repaired using the specialized editors contained in the program

Remove Non-ASCII Trash in Records

• File is positioned to first damaged record
• Repairs records with just one keystroke
• Continue-from-here finds the next bad record
• Move to the next or previous record at any time
• Performs instant diagnosis of any record
• All repairs are done under user control

Unwanted End-of-File Markers

• Converts unwanted end-of-file markers to harmless spaces throughout the file with a single keystroke

Damaged or Missing File Headers

• Transplants replacement headers from a donor file or you can use the Header Builder to construct a new header from the data in the damaged file

Data Offset

• File is automatically positioned to the offset
• Realigns the file with just one keystroke
• Continue-from-here finds any offsets
• Move to next or previous record at any time
• Performs instant diagnosis of any record

Un-ZAP

Automatic Un-ZAP

Completely recover a ZAP'd file, that has not been overwritten, with a single keystroke - no need to rewrite the file.

Manually Assisted Un-ZAP

Recover non-overwritten portions of a partially overwritten ZAP'd file. You can access and retrieve data from any free area of your disk. The data at the boundaries of deallocated clusters is displayed, allowing you to accept or reject it. Accepted clusters are then added to the file's allocation chain, while the File Allocation Table and the disk directory are updated automatically.

Extended ASCII Characters Switch

• Allows all extended ASCII characters, graphics, to be treated as acceptable characters

All-Characters Switch and T Switch

• All-characters switch allows all characters excepts nulls to be treated as acceptable characters
• The T switch allows all characters, including nulls, in Character fields

Header Editor

• With dSalvage Professional, you can change information in a damaged header to make it compatible with the file's data:
  
  • Record Size
  • Field Names
  • Record Count
  • Field Types
  • Field Count
  • Field Widths
  • Field Decimals
  • Version Number
• Change by selecting a parameter and entering a new value -- the changes do not require you to rewrite the file
• Optionally copy header to an external file
• Change field names without having to recopy the file

Record Editor

• Displays data in typical Xbase edit format allowing user to access any record and change data in any field, including memo field pointers
• Easily search for data
• Continues the data search from the location of the last find
• Move to any record by specifying the absolute or relative record number
• Count good records and add optional end-of-file marker after the last record
• Record Editor provides direct access to the contents of an associated memo file enabling scanning of memo blocks, character string search of memo blocks, and automatic correction of memo field pointers

Byte Stream Editor

• Displays file data as an unformatted continuous character stream
• Changes any data by over-typing
• Search/find data even if it crosses field or record boundaries
• Continues your data search from the location of the last find
• Position the cursor to a desired byte by specifying the absolute or relative byte location - it's useful for measuring record/field lengths
• Force a write to disk at any time

Allows Full Block Operations: Mark a block; Copy or move a block to another location; Write a block to an external file; Delete a block, with undelete capability; Paste data from an external file; Use with any type of file including COM and EXE files.

Hex Editor

• Displays file data, including header, in hex and ASCII format
• Changes any file byte by typing over current data in hex or ASCII
• Searches for any byte, including nulls, control and extended ASCII characters, anywhere in the file, including the header
• Continues the search from the location of the last find
• Can be used with any type of file including COM and EXE files

Foreign Language Switches

• Allows the high-bit characters in French, German, Spanish and/or Portuguese to be treated as acceptable characters

Compatibility

• dSalvage Professional is fully compatible with the latest versions of FoxPro, dBASE, and all other Xbase products
• No file size or disk size limit
• Network compatible with minor limitations

dSalvage and Visual FoxPro
Microsoft has made extensive changes to the DBF file structure in Visual FoxPro. In addition, they have introduced a new type of DBF file (having a DBC extension) that is a container for one or more DBF “table” files. The DBF's are called tables and the DBC's are called databases.

The current version of dSALVAGE is not compatible with Visual FoxPro files.