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....
>

That normally means the table really *is* corrupt, in VFP5 as well as in VFP8. Only VFP5 doesn't check it. It may still work for 99.99% of the reccords but it definitely is corrupt. Reindexing might seem to fix the problem because the index directs to the discrete positions in the table and thus "hides" the corrupted area (as You said for a while).

As others stated, there is SET TABLEVALIDATE in VFP 8. However I would NOT simply set it to 0 as that does not cure the problem. Either You do have a tool like FoxFix or You could do the following:

- SET TABLEVALIDATE to 0, so You can work with the table
- Copy DBC and DBF (+ additional files like FPT etc.) into a TEMP-Directory
- Select the TEMP-Directory and completely zap the table - even better recreate it from scratch.
- Append the records from the original table
- copy the new table back to its original location. (make another backup, just to be sure)
- reSet TABLEVALIDATE to a value it kicks in.

That should really get the corrupness out of the table.


HTH