>>I have a cust.dbf containing a memo field cust.details
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>>The following code has worked fine for years in VFP7
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>>select * from cust where "price"$details
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>>but it falls over in my new VFP9 upgrade - with "Memo file missing or Invalid"
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>>I.E. I can run the code against the SAME table on the same PC and it is fine in VFP7, not so in VFP9.
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>>I have tried converting the details field by using ALLTRIM(details) in the SQL command but this has made no difference - I get the same error.
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>>Anyone got any suggestions?
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>>Thanks
>>Barry Sutton
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>VFP9 is more sensitive to the errors of the files.
>The file memo is not perfect.

Yes - I noted this from one of Sergey Berezniker's postings. I followed his advice which was to go to VFP7, copy the table to a temporary table, PACKed the table and then recreated the cdx indexes. This has sorted it out and it now runs fine in VFP9.