>I know I've heard of this happening before but I don't recall it every happening to me .. or more importantly .. what I can do to solve the problem.
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>I'm working on a complicated report. There are a few lines of code in the BeforeOpenTables and AfterCloseTables methods. Yesterday my report quit working and I couldn't figure out why it wasn't working. Then I finally realized that the code in those methods is now trashed and garbled and full of funky characters. I fixed up the methods and then continued working on the report. Later in the day, it happened again .. but of course took me a long time to realize that it happened again. Well .. it happened again this morning.
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>Does anybody recall this bug and what the story is? This is a complicated report and I've been crashing it while running it because of not having other code right .. but that should TOUCH my report definition.

Not that I remember what the cause was, but... if that's just a bit of code, can't you have the text of the methods somewhere in a little prg, stashed in text/endtext and ready to replace in your.frx expr with lcMyCode for uniqueid="_whatever"? Um, and compile report in the next line?

If it happened so many times, my bet is it may happen again. So just do the bad part over and keep the rest, eh?

Maybe it's the .frt file that's getting memo bloated? Pack memo?

[update: just noticed that I've answered your one question with about five more :)... but you're the report queen, I can only point you into whatever direction I may have a hunch to]