Almost ready to throw up the white flag but thought I'd throw it out there. I have an OLD program from 1994 that uses a btrieve dB and renders basic membership info for a gym. The btr file that holds the data will open in notepad and I can search and find all records although the formatting is nearly unreadable. When it opens in the program there is a huge chunk of records missing. It seems to stop on specific records up and down when scrolling.
I know almost nothing about btrieve as it predates my IT career by many years and I've honestly never seen it. Any suggestions on where I should troubleshoot or tools that may help would be much appreciated.
This sounds like the file may be corrupted although I would expect errors if it was corrupted. One way to rebuild the file is to use BUTIL (and a couple of OS commands).
The steps to rebuild are:
The rebuild is complete. I've use the commands below in the past (changing 'filename' and the extensions to match my files).
copy filename.btr someother\location\filename.btr
ren filename.btr filename.old
del filename.btr
butil -clone filename.btr filename.old
butil -copy filename.old filename.btr