I'm not sure there's a good way for us to determine if this is getting us or not. I doubt it, mostly because the problem can be reproduced in just a few minutes and the steps don't cause a lot of file openings. I was under the impression that problem had to do with requerying and/or opening views, not opening any file.

>There was/is a problem with VFP opening more than 64k file handles during a single session. Is this maybe getting you?