AFAIK no one touched the file after the crash but me. I made no changes and simply copied the affected table to a local hard drive where I investigated it. I renamed the crashed DBF, CDX, and FPT files and they are still on the server.

There are people who can access the data directory but I don't think they have any tools that could truncate a file that size.

Strange, huh?

Off topic: do you know the TakeNote folks?

Peter

>Does anyone other than you/developers have access directly to the files, older versions of the file or Foxpro itself? Odd that only the dbf was reduced. Did someone try to "fix" it before you got involved?