>>>Hi Ed,
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>>>>The most likely cause is that you've left a value in your Watch Window that expects to act on a table when you last exited from the debugger - go into your FoxUser file and delete all the relevant records - the WATCHEXPR record contains the current values set in the Watch Window.
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>>>Any idea what value would do that? When I tried to duplicate the problem, I tried putting alias.field, RECCOUNT(), DBF(), and none of them caused a file prompt -- they just showed blank or "cannot be evaluated".
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>>Good question. I even tred the obvious ones like "USE ?" or "BROWSE" and they just gave me the "expression cannot be evaluated" message.
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>We got our answer - an AFIELDS(). I can't imagine dropping that in a Watch window; it'd return the number of fields in the CWA each time, and repopulate the ref array...I'd expect VFP to fall down go boom in short order!

I tried AFIELDS() after I read that message. I still only get the "Expression can not be evaluated", no prompt for a table.