>Here's what I don't understand. I've had users pounding on data entry apps and had "robots" sitting on the server scanning the DBFs and adding records. I even had a set of 16 machines doing bulk faxing while others added/edited records in multi-million record dbfs. I didn't see any data corruption.
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>Is there a possibility that the robot is causing problems?

So, if I understand correctly, you had multiple applications running on several servers accessing VFP data on network drive. Is that correct? And, you never experienced problems in the connectivity such as having data being corrupted and such.