David,

If you just do select * from curObjects into cursor newCursorName nofilter and examine this new cursor, would you have data in the memo field? If not, then I suspect that the original cursor already lost memo field data some time in the process.

It could be you somehow hit internal VFP keyword, but that's a bit strange and doubtfully real.

>Naomi,
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>I agree. It doesn't make any sense. I added: substr(curobjects.m_full_containership,1,50) as zz
>zz was still blank.
>Any other tests I do with joining two tables with memo fields, the memo data is fine.
>Also note there is a field called cvalue in curobjectsproperties that's a memo field (prefix is c - but it is memo), and that is fine.
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>I thought there might be some problem with long field names in cursors? but my testing on that was also fine. I am stumped.
>