>>That's exactly what I'm getting at. I can't think of anything more safe than an ascii file while I have had form and project files become corrupt.
>>For no good reason too.
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>Joe,
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>There is always a "good reason". If you know what it is you can prevent the damage in the first place. Just because we don't know what the "good reason" is does not mean there isn't one. Unlike popular belief there is no magic that happens in a computer.
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Does that mean that you can explain just what makes the computer stop working when you let the magic smoke out of a few chips on the motherboard? < g >

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>If your ASCII files are critical, then backup, backup, backup.

AMEN!

And don't store the backup right next to the computer!