>>>You're probably the only expert on recovery of FTP files because few, if any, of us have had any problems over the years.
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>>IMHO, "Memo file is missing or invalid problem" is quite common. Few times we got it recently we were able to fix it with CMRepair.
>Maybe it depends upon what you use the memo fields for, the intensity and complexity of the usage. I use it to store credit card track information in one instance, and database encryption and login history information in another. There are several thousand users and over the last 15 years the memo files have never ever been a customer support issue. In fact I can't recall one instance, and I don't consider myself lucky either. If I am then I'm blessed and I'll accept that.

The application, that recently gave us this trouble, is a convert from Foxpro for DOS and so it's very badly written. I think we can attribute these problems to its architecture in this particular case.