Hi,

>Just a thought... perhaps you could open up a valid DBC as a table and compare it to the DBC that will not open to see if you can uncover a distinction between them. I'm stating the obvious but you should probably back up the files before changing them to try and get it working.

Thanks for the suggestion. Problem here is that every users DBC is different (they get to design/create tables and add them to the database at runtime) so I've nothing particularly similar to compare it to. I think the change from VFP3Beta was in the way things were stored in some of the DBC memo fields so the problem might stem from corruption in one of those. In the end I freed all the tables and added them back in to a new DBC just to get them back up and running but I've kept a copy of the bad DBC to look at later...

Regards,
Viv