Linda,

>When I made the fields nullable and made sure the value was null, they come in as blanks. However, when I try to save a record back to the table that has an empty date, I get an error "File message.dbf does not exist". (There are no references to a message.dbf in any of my code.)
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>I tried changing the text value to "null" before saving but got the same result. What do I need to do?

Hmmm....are you using MM .NET localization? It may be trying to pull a Framework message from the localization table. Can you post the full stack trace here?

Best Regards,