>>>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?
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>Within the app, having them programmatically unencrypted.

But VFP uses these fields internally, and as far as I know doesn't give you a chance to get in between it and the dbc to do any decrypting. For example, when you USE a table that is a member of a dbc, VFP opens the dbc and reads its fields automatically.