>I have had flaky happennings with Memo files. My next version of my application hopefully will include FoxFire or something to fix damaged files - including memo files.
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>In the meantime I did the following with a users who had a damaged Memo file which, in turn, gave me the "Illegal Operation". I SCANned all of the records in the file with SCAN ... ENDSCAN. For each record I stored the memo data to a variable, Replaced the memo field with '' and then replace the memo field with the data in the variable (the original data). Crude but got me past the 'Illegal Operation".

Crude? Nah. If it worked then it's innovative! I'll keep it in mind too.