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I have many "old" (10+ year) MapInfo workspaces that I want to reopen but cannot locate some of the tables. MapInfo will not open the workspaces without these tables and the data/objects I want only exist in the editable layer of these old workspaces. Is there a way of overiding MapInfo's inability to open the workspace without these tables??

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Mark, With MapInfo Professional 11.5.1 we added a feature that we have called "Broken Workspace Opening improvements". This new feature will let you skip tables that can't be opened and just open what can be found.

Maybe that can do what you are looking for.

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Workspace Resolver v1.1 will help you delete broken data sources

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This can be found via MapInfo Pro 11.5.1

Tools>Tools Manager and select 'Workspace Resolver' (at the bottom) This Tool should be located in 'C:\Program Files (x86)\MapInfo\Professional\Tools\WorkspaceResolver.MBX' (if installed with defaults on the c: drive)

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Mapinfo work spaces are actually just text files: try opening them with an editor (take a backup to be sure) and remove all references to the broken tables. They should look like:

Open Table "USA\USA_MAPS\USZIPBDY" As USZIPBDY Interactive
Open Table "USA\USA_MAPS\LANDMRKS" As LANDMRKS Interactive
Open Table "USA\USA_MAPS\US_CNTY" As US_CNTY Interactive

Example taken from: http://www.sgsi.com/MIUserGroup/WorEditing_PhilWoods/Workspace-Presentation.htm

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It's easy to remove the line opening the table, but that will just move the error further down the process of opening the workspace. You can easily find the reference to the table in the Map statement, but in the Set Map statements MapBasic refers to the layer numbers, not the table names. So this might get very complicated if the table is used in a number of maps with many layers. – Peter Horsbøll Møller Oct 24 '12 at 8:37

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