Can garbled individual fields or fields that you regard as having wrong data be restored to their original contents?
No file repair utility can decide what should be the field contents. BUT Recover can detect structurally invalid field data AND with proper options Recover can detect binary data in text fields and “suspicious fields” so that YOU can take appropriate steps in correcting the data intelligently. In spite of claims by some repair utilities to automatically “repair” unwanted binary data in a field, garbled individual fields cannot be restored to original data. There is no way of software knowing what was there originally. The “removal” or “replacement” of binary data with spaces or whatever can actually cause problems. Such an action can change the meaning or value of data with undesirable consequences. Example 1: If a field originally had the customer code “12345-B” and the garbled field was “XX345-B” and it was repaired to ” 345-B” the result may mix up your customer accounts. (The X’s here stand for binary garbage characters.) Example 2: If a memo field with original contents “Do not al
