>>Are there any disadvantages to encryting the OBJECTTYPE and/or OBJECTNAME fields in a .dbc? If you do this it will not allow the database to be opened by Excel or Access but I would like to get some opinions on the downside of doing this.
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>>TIA,
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>Out of curiosity, how do you plan on having VFP read them after you have encrypted them?

Within the app, having them programmatically unencrypted.