It broke. Would not reindex. Would not pack. Reported corrupted or missing fpt file. The file has 2 fields - acctnum and memo. Once the fpt file goes bad how do you reconnect the memo data to the correct acctnum unless the memo data also has a reference to the memo? With just a few records it is possible but this particular file has 7000 records with data going back to 1998. To me the weakest point of the entire FoxBase,FoxPro,VFP environment has always been memo fields. In most of my applications, I ghost write memo field entries into text files or some other mechanism so that I can programatically replace data when VFP decides the the fpt file is broken. I also take car to open memo file, get data, and then close them. I do not keep them open unless absolutely necessary. In this case, I was able to locate the broken records - about 40- and reinsert the data from a backup. However, I had to delete the existing records and then recreate them. At the end of this this tedious process the *((&*(() file would not pack - missing or corrupt fpt file! So , I did what I should have done at first- create a new file and read all the good records into it and then manually recreate the ones that would not transfer.