>>>I've had VFP9 running on a box for almost 2 years no problem. Last night I got a fatal error of some sort --- rebooted machine.
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>>>Long story short -- now it will not open data session window and I get that stupid C0005 error when I try to close VFP -- so I think I need to reinstall.
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>>>I have lost of things setup in VFP I really hate to do that --- any ideas anyone?
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>>>Thanks.
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>>First thing to do when something like this happens, is to delete foxuser.* and retry VFP.
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>FWIW, I vote for renaming it. If it's not the problem, why lose all those settings? Even if it is, you may be able to save some of the settings.

I used to open it exclusive and then delete all the records containing word 'Courier' or 'Arial' in the data memo, or having a WIND in the name. Then pack. Nothing personal, I just always hated those two fonts. And it helped, these records would keep settings for various editing sessions from years ago.