>Yes Naomi I have a back up in a separate USB.
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>I opened this backed-up with VFP6 and still it gives me the error. I was worried that someone might have opened it with VFP9. Do you think the error is caused by that?
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>Also, most of the forms return that same error except for the record #. This is an old program I wrote few years back that needs to be revised.
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>Pls help.
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>TIA.

Yes, I think it was somehow caused by opening this form in VFP as this is new property in VFP and it somehow got set. Try searching for
'specialeffect' $ lower(properties) and try to remove this line.