Loren,

>>David, you make the comment "Do you have to have a foxuser.dbf for your applications?", I am not sure! I had a look at the memo fields in the file and see some redundant references to a project that I used when I first started using VFP back in September.

Many of the references you will find there are likely from your development efforts over time. Most applications do not need much in the foxuser, if anything. It's not required. It can be helpful for setting up the sizing of certain windows, etc, and then marking it READ-ONLY at the operating system level (which will prevent changes and new entries) or ReadOnly=.t. at the record level to prevent changes to that item.

But there are also other ways to do the same thing in a more OOP kind of way with VFP.

>>I ran the program with Set Resource Off and the program ran fine.

You may not even need it.

>>As you can see from the date that I started using VFP that I am fairly new to the language and believe that I have made great strides but lots to learn yet. My prior experience with programming was a 5 year project that I completed back in 1985 in the DOS environment. I took 14 years off to play Golf and have now returned to a whole new world!

Rip Van Winkle syndrome. Welcome back. There's plenty of us around with one foot in FP2.6 and one in VFP.