>PMI, Ed, but that's not an entirely accurate statement. The metadata files are opened and used internally by VFP a bit differently that applications use tables with memo fields and are, therefore, less likely to corrupt.
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How so? I would bet that internally, VFP is issuing a USE on these files, and using the VFP engine at their disposal to deal with them. If it weren't, there wouldn't be dcx files. I have had forms, projects, and databases get corrupted just as often as data files...