>Thanks, Aleksey. In other words we need to use this setting for TABLEVALIDATE in our application if we want to be able to open the files.
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Yes, you need to combine 4 with whatever setting you are using now, SET TABLEVALIDATE TO 4 will disable all validations and is equivalent to SET TABLEVALIDATE TO 0 in that sense.


>The records still may be locked, right? But only the records that were updated, not all the records in the file. Am I right here?
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VFP may choose to lock the file rather than locking individual records, it all depends.


Aleksey.