# Old Program Recovery

**URL:** <https://clarionhub.com/t/old-program-recovery/3910>\
**Category:** questions\
**Created:** [March 3, 2021, 1:13pm UTC](https://clarionhub.com/t/old-program-recovery/3910 "2021-03-03T13:13:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Grant\_Cameron-Smith](https://clarionhub.com/user_avatar/clarionhub.com/grant_cameron-smith/32/1526_2.png) [@Grant\_Cameron-Smith](https://clarionhub.com/u/Grant_Cameron-Smith)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2021, 1:13pm UTC](https://clarionhub.com/t/old-program-recovery/3910/1 "2021-03-03T13:13:17Z")

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I am using the latest CW 11

I have a .APP and a .DCT file and a very old .CWPROJ and I need to recreate the Solution and recompile the EXE.

Can any one shed light on how I should do this please, because I am a bit confused - When I try and recreate the solution and do a recovery, I simply get thousands of errors - I cannot seem to create the programname.CLW file though which may be the issue.

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**Author:** ![Clarion\_clarion](https://clarionhub.com/user_avatar/clarionhub.com/clarion_clarion/32/636_2.png) [@Clarion\_clarion](https://clarionhub.com/u/Clarion_clarion)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2021, 3:13pm UTC](https://clarionhub.com/t/old-program-recovery/3910/2 "2021-03-03T15:13:26Z")

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what exactly error you got? Probably because your old app is using some 3rd party templates?

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**Author:** ![francisco\_viviers](https://clarionhub.com/user_avatar/clarionhub.com/francisco_viviers/32/1965_2.png) [@francisco\_viviers](https://clarionhub.com/u/francisco_viviers)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2021, 10:36pm UTC](https://clarionhub.com/t/old-program-recovery/3910/3 "2021-03-03T22:36:47Z")

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In that cases i usually create an empty folder and copy app file and dct file to it. then i open .app with clarion ide , it should create a solution file and a cwproj file, after that i complete the new cwproj with the old one by reading and comparing xml tags from each file.

Discarding that the errors are not from references to 3rd party templates

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**Author:** ![Grant\_Cameron-Smith](https://clarionhub.com/user_avatar/clarionhub.com/grant_cameron-smith/32/1526_2.png) [@Grant\_Cameron-Smith](https://clarionhub.com/u/Grant_Cameron-Smith)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2021, 6:02am UTC](https://clarionhub.com/t/old-program-recovery/3910/4 "2021-03-04T06:02:59Z")

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Thank you for responding. WOW… I have managed to find the cause of the problem… and it was very nasty.

I found that the .DCT that I recovered had one less table in it than than an earlier version. And although that one table was not reference anywhere in the APP, when I restored the previous version of the .DCT everything compiled correctly as per your help.

Thank you - but it is now working - but it was very confusing