>As you know, when you create a cursor with CREATE CURSOR, Foxpro creates a TMP file in the temp directory. And when you close the cursor, Foxpro deletes the TMP file. Great. But if you do ALTER TABLE on that cursor, Foxpro won't delete the TMP file when you close the cursor. I found this out the hard way when a user had over 14,000 file in her TEMP directory!
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>I didn't see anything about this on Microsoft knowledgebase. Does anyone know why this happens? Is it a bug? It happens in 3.0b and 5.0a

If VFP crashes, the TMP files will also get left behind. Through experience, I've found the following solution works best:

- Point Fox temp files to C:\FOXTEMP

In the autoexec.bat, do:

DELTREE /Y C:\FOXTEMP
MD C:\FOXTEMP

This way, everytime the user boots, the files are cleaned up. Note that my experience shows this to be a better solution than just deleting the files.