I've been experiencing a similar problem. The memo fields are acting weird - data that was in a memo field for one record is showing up in a memo field for another record. It looks like the pointers are being switched around. There is a process we've scheduled to autorun which affects this table. It runs on on a machine which access this machine over the network. We have several process that touch this table, some are in VFP 5.0, some are in VFP 8.0. None of the tables are part of the database. The code I'm using has tablebuffering involved. Any one have ideas as to how these pointers could get messed up?