I've not really heard of this. I used CodeMine on one app, but it's been discarded now since I rewrote the app as a Web-based app. Does this happen after a "good save" - meaning where you create/edit the form, save it, close it, reopen it (ensuring that it did get saved and does exist) and then later at some point this error occurs and you lose the files? Any chance they are somehow getting marked as hidden? I'm still confused why you'd get a CodeMine error. Is it controlling the environment so that it opens the form for editing instead of you just opening it from the Command window? goApp is normally only in existence when your app is running, not in the VFP environment, right? So why would it refer to goApp? This is kind of confusing. As I told someone else, have you considered calling a priest for an exorcism?

>Hi Russell
>you wrote:
>goApp sounds like something from a framework. Do you use one? It almost sounds as if a framework's error checking code is still active.
>
>You're right. I use the CodeMine framework, and I think this is a "phoney message" from the main prg called appmain.prg. I think it may be because I added the folowing code to release the background .jpg pictures that are background in several apps I've develpoed.
>_screen.oImg.Picture = ""
>* then the program releases all remaining global service objects before exit.
>
>Think this is just a indication that vfp and/or winXP has screwed up behind the scenes.
>Have you ever heard of this where the system just removes a form's 2 files ( scx & sct) without a trace?
>All help appreciated.
>Bill