>>Check your disk for Lost Clusters, etc. A good diagnostics program can sometimes point out why this is occuring.
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>As I was saying, it's internal to VFP, it's been like this since I have move to Visual FoxPro 5. I didn't have the problem in Visual FoxPro 3.

Well Robert seems to have no problems with his tests. Most times I find these type of errors have more to do with the local installation then anything else. I would suggest duplicating the situation on another PC to determine where the problem actually is. I have had similar expeiences numerous times & it usually turns out to be PC dependent.

HTH,
Tom