Hi Pascal.

>I can open, browse and do stuff with a certain table in VFP 5.0. When I try to open it in 8.0, it says the table has become corrupt.

VFP 8 is trying to help you avoid a data loss problem by reporting that the header of this table is corrupted. Earlier versions didn't give you the warning, but added records were often lost due to the corruption, and you'd have no way of knowing until a customer told you that data was missing.

While you can SET TABLEVALIDATE TO 0 to avoid the error, you still have a table corruption issue to deal with. Packing the table helps because it writes a new DBF file, but if the error persists, that means something is continuing to corrupt the table. Look for the usual suspects: users turning off their machines without exiting the application, virus, bad hardware (especially network interface cards and cabling), etc.

Doug