>Hi to all,
>I start a little application in a network. There's a computer which contains all the data that, while being used in other applications (Internet, or MS Word) crashed. It was necessary to turn it off.
>So happenened that the last set of data that was recorded (there were about six tables involved) was full of strange signs that I guessed were high value i.e. chr(255) (this term is from cobol language).
>Naturally there were no ways to append any other record to these tables. Seen that these happened already twice...Is there any simple way to prevent this problem ? Note that even though there was a PC using the VFP application, it wasn't used at that moment.

Are you using table buffering? I have had no server data loss, period, even with abrupt server crashes since I've been using it (two years or so now). I lose indexes, and users lose buffered work sometimes, but that's the worst I've had...