>>Sorry but I'm not following you.
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>How can I get rid of general fields all together?
You may either replace them with blob fields (In VFP9) or memo binary fields in prior VFP versions or store just a path to the file in the table. This depends on your requirements. But how exactly extract the info from general fields first to move to other type of fields I'm not certain.
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