>Hi
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>For a long time, some parts of my software works slow on the network.
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>Today I found that acces to free table cause the problem.
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>I used to opens and closes the free tables every time that I access to tables.
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>Question is whether this is because antivirus,
>or work with external free tables is very slow,
>or I have to leave them open all the time,
>Or any other help.
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>Thank you

Free tables are not slower than dbf based ones. Antivirus might be one reason. You shouldn't open them all and keep open all the time. IMHO that is a bad idea. You need to make sure you have necessary indexes. VFP, by nature, is slow over network. It wouldn't be so easy but if you can do, convert to a C/S database (like postgreSQL, SQL server ...).