Wrong information, Jaime. SET TABLEVALIDATE to 0 is only necessary if you have some kind of corruption. And in that case you should fix the corruption, not simply ignore it.

>In VFP9, just SET TABLEVALIDATE to 0
>Otherwise VFP9 won't open your table at all, and you can still keep on using it from previous VFP versions.
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>Jaime
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>>Hi,
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>>We want to write a small utility to update data in a VFP 6 table.
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>>However, we would prefer to write this utility in VFP 9 (it is likely to involve consuming data from a web service).
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>>Will opening the table in VFP 9 affect the structure of the table in any way?
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>>The database must still be useable by our VFP 6 application after it has been opened in VFP 9. Are we likely to have any problems?
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>>Regards.
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>>Matt.