>>>This is really strange, for the life of me, I can't figure out how or why my
>>>FOXUSER.FPT disappears! It happens only intermittently, not every time I quit VFP or turn off my computer. At one time I had MS Explorer open and I highlighted FOXUSER.FPT and FOXUSER.DBF (my version, in my folder, resources = on and directed to my folder), and then went over to VFP and quit the application, and right there in my own eyes, I saw FOXUSER.FPT literally disappeared from MS Explorer! I went over to the trash bin, it's not there. I did a search for the file and the only file I found was the default one in VFP directory. How can it disappear like that? Got any ideas on how this could happen? Corrupted memo fields? This has been happening since I upgraded VFP (6.0 to 8.0).
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>>Did you try to delete foxuser.dbf and foxuser.fpt in case they are corrupted?
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>Thanks for replying. I have once before but I'll try again.

Do you've any code that runs on VFP shotdown and does some cleanup?
Do you've antivirus If you do (you should) try to exclude all VFP table files from the virus scan.