hi!

One reason is, abnormal shut-down of PC due to power failure(or any cause of..) and the DBF files were open.

tony,


>What can cause records in a DBF to get hieroglyphic garbage in them?

> I have some users of my application that are experiencing this problem. 2 different users sent me a CD with their
DBFs on it. By browsing these table, I see that there are a few records that contain garbage data.

> Where should I start looking for a problem? Could this be related to hardware or software?