>>>Sorry but I'm not following you.
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>>How can I get rid of general fields all together?
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>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.

For that there should be a way in the existing app that handles the general field - it can save as, then pass the filename to whichever piece of code runs the conversion into new fields.