>>Hi Herman,
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>>I think you may be hitting it right. I never questioned the code myself. I'm going to apply your changes and I'm sure it would resolve this problem.
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>>Thanks a million again.
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>You're welcome, hope it resolved your problems :)

I hope too. For these empty files it turned out that the program was run with default VFP setting of DELETED OFF and there were deleted records with empty Notes in tData and atData files. Which reminds me I need to add one additional check then.

Thanks.