>Hi Cetin
>
>In message #662467, you describe an approach of extracting a general field into a file by the use of the 579 marker. I tried this:
>
>

>FUNCTION SaveIt2
>PARAMETER tcFile
>lcTemp = sys(2015)
>lcOutFileName = "New-"+ALLTRIM(STR(RECNO()))+"."+tcFile
>copy fields z_data to (lcTemp) next 1
>
>Hin = fopen(lcTemp+".fpt")
>hout=fcreate(lcOutFileName)
>lnSize=fseek(hin,0,2)
>fseek(hin,0x204,0) && Move file pointer to offset 0x204 where file size is stored
>lnSize = 0
>for ix=4 to 1 step -1
>	lnSize=lnSize+asc(fread(hin,1))*256^(ix-1)
>endfor
>fwrite(hout,fread(hin,lnSize),lnSize)
>=fclose(hin) and fclose(hout)
>erase (lcTemp+'.*')
>

>
>The various types of documents I have are:
>
>Word.Document.12
>AcroExch.Document.7
>Excel.Sheet.8
>Word.Document.8
>
>In all of them, I end up in non recognized document when I try to open them in Word, Excel of Acrobat Reader. Would you have or anyone has an idea about what I am missing here?

Oh that message is from 2002:) I don't know what you might be missing, didn't deal with general fields for a very long time. Looking at your data with an hex editor like VFP's hexedit might reveal some info. My guess is that your general fields may be using link in which case the original of the file should be there on disk too.
Cetin