>You are right. The key thing to avoid gibberish is to create the final file through Cryptor, which means through VFP and not by renaming with Windows Explorer.
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>Cryptor is clever enough to encrypt a file via the VFP RENAME command but COPY TO handles DBF/FPT/CDX at once.

The thing is there is probably no way to accomodate all possible scenarios: sometimes you need the ability to export unencrypted, while in other stiuations the same ability is not helpful.

regards

thomas