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Exporting FoxPro DBF Files

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I am attempting to export data stored by a client's Visual FoxPro database to be used in a MySQL context. The data given is a folder of .dbf, .cdx, and .tbk files, as well as a few .dct, .dcx, and .dbc files. I have access to the directory with the files, but I do not have access to FoxPro. I have tried opening them with dBASE, which has been more supported and is supposed to be able to read DBF files, but that was to no avail: dBASE kept claiming that there were corrupted table/index headers, which prevented it from opening the DBF files even when in the same directory as the associated CDX files. I have tried opening them with data recovery tools to see what I could gather, and those appear to show strings stored in the rows, but due to what I believe is an encoding issue, they're surrounded by gibberish and not well organized. I have even tried opening them with spreadsheet tools like LibreOffice, but they gave similar results. Are there any other tools or methods I can attempt to get the data from these files and store them in a more modern format? I tried obtaining FoxPro, but it refuses to run on my version of Windows 10 due to its discontinuation. I appreciate any assistance or advice that you can give. Thank you in advance!
Asked by Eli (101 rep)
Oct 21, 2022, 07:57 PM
Last activity: Apr 4, 2024, 02:06 PM