>>Now to you ideas:
>>- I have restarted Visual FoxPro and independently also the machine as well -> no changes
>>- I think I have the usual settings set. For instance the reported observations were all made with SET FIELDS OFF. If I SET FIELDS ON then I get error 12 - Variable "OBJNAME" is not found, though it is there if I take the solution with the "X"-es (see my mail to Sergey)
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>>Anyhow, many thanks for your efforts.
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>That's a tough problem. Do you have this problem with any VCX (SCX) or with a specific one?
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>Did you try to move (delete) FoxUser?

I am very sorry, but I have to stop for tonight. It is midnight around here and I have to get up very early. So I would prefer to continue tomorrow, when I am back home and did some experiments with FoxUser.dbf (see my answer to Sergey).

Hans