Hi Kevin:
If your tables are on a network, then your problem is the same as thousands of people, so you probably have found a ton of messages on the web and on forums about table corruption, specially memo fields.
Reason is this:
http://www.dataaccess.com/whitepapers/opportunlockingreadcaching.htmlThe best solution is to upsize the DBFs to a SQL Database (SQLServer, MariaDB, MySQL, etc), because they have not this problem.
Regards.-
Fernando D. Bozzo
Madrid / Spain