>You just have to fix the table. Unfortunately the C0000005 error doesn't give any reasonable information, so you just have to try to figure out the problem yourself.
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>In this case, a corrupt FPT will not stop the table from opening (as you found) but WILL prevent other actions. Neither a feature nor a bug, I should think, just that opening a file doesn't check the validity of any record, but a SQL DOES look at multiple records and finds the problems.
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>I'd LOVE to see both VFP5 and VFP6 get better error handling to replace the C000005 errors!
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Keep dreaming, Barbara; it's an error captured by the operating system that flat out kills VFP, like a GPF...

>Barbara
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>>My VFP 6 applications keeps crashing with this dreadful error(C0005). I found that one of the tables had a corrupt memo file. VFP does not return an error when i open the table. But when I do a SQL on this table I get this FATAL error. IS this a feature or a BUG :)
>>Can anybody help