Error opening .tab file
Chris84
I use MapInfo v10 and am trying to open a .tab file that I have been
sent.
It contains the .dat, .id, .ind, .map & .tab files but will not open.
The following error appears: 'Incorrect index file version. File is
not a valid table, workspace or application.
Can anyone help?
Much appreciated.
Uffe Kousgaard
Delete the ind file and open the tab file in a text editor. Now delete
the text with "index N". Save the TAB file and try again.
Regards
Uffe Kousgaard
Eric Blasenheim
those who might fear they could mess something up there is another
way.
Delete the .ind file as Uffe said, open the table, which will bring up
some warnings about the not found indices, go to Table Maintenance,
Table Structure and index one or more of the fields that you want.
Professional will rewrite the .TAB correctly.
Eric Blasenheim
PBBI (MapInfo)
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Mats Elfström
The reason for this problem may be that the index was built under another language version of MapInfo, or is an old tab-file from when character sets were treated differently than today.
But I'd like to comment on Erics post.
We love the text editor approach simply because it's there, as the fact that we can edit, read and write important MI Pro files with simple tools just because they are ASCII files.
The other day I had to admit defeat when I was asked to make a simple edit to an ArcGIS map, only because their workspace format is binary/proprietary and this one had some 50+ paths to an inaccessible location.
Please PB MapInfo, never ever consider changing this policy but keep these files as ASCII files. Even better, expose some other support files as well, such as thematic templates, preferences and so on.
Perhaps they could be changed to xml based files as an alternate approach?
Regards, Mats.E
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Eric Blasenheim
1) Not all users are good with text editors and some should never use
them. So I was just pointing out that in this case you don't have to
do it that way.
2) You seem to think that I was projecting some hidden message that
we, at MapInfo/PBBI have some plan for taking away the .TAB and .WOR.
Not true.
3) Even if we did come up with a newer perhaps XML based format, we
would still be supporting .TAB and .WOR for ... virtually forever.
4) As proof despite all attempts at newer formats which do offer some
new capabilities, Shape is still everywhere, MS has docx but still
reads and writes .doc, etc.
Have a good weekend!
Eric Blasenheim
PBBI(MapInfo)
On Jan 15, 11:04 am, Mats Elfström <mats.elfst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi list!
>
> The reason for this problem may be that the index was built under another
> language version of MapInfo, or is an old tab-file from when character sets
> were treated differently than today.
>
> But I'd like to comment on Erics post.
>
> We love the text editor approach simply because it's there, as the fact that
> we can edit, read and write important MI Pro files with simple tools just
> because they are ASCII files.
>
> The other day I had to admit defeat when I was asked to make a simple edit
> to an ArcGIS map, only because their workspace format is binary/proprietary
> and this one had some 50+ paths to an inaccessible location.
>
> Please PB MapInfo, never ever consider changing this policy but keep these
> files as ASCII files. Even better, expose some other support files as well,
> such as thematic templates, preferences and so on.
> Perhaps they could be changed to xml based files as an alternate approach?
>
> Regards, Mats.E
>
> 2010/1/15 Eric Blasenheim <eric.blasenh...@pb.com>
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Sunnie
I have acquired more from the text editor than from a MapInfo help
file!
They are brilliant
But other ways of skinning the cat are always good to know, that is
why i read this forum!
Sunnie
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