>Hi Steve,
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>I posted a note about running into this same problem a few weeks ago. I thought I was going crazy, but the fact was that VFP didn't even have to be open when it crashed, just have been open sometime in the same session. And I am also developing on an NTFS partition.
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>BTW, FPTs get trashed too, on occasion.
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>>Ever since I have moved to Window 2000, if the O/S crashes - yeah it does even though its not supposed to - for any reason, any open VFP form, and any form whihc HAS BEEN open since the last reboot is trashed. When I look at the SCT file with a text editor, it looks like the file has been overwritten with an single ASCII character. (I haven't looked at it with a heax editer to see which character)
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>>When I first put Win2K on a machine, it was under FAT32, and if I bypassed scan disk, it was usually possible to make a backup, although sometimes thw files were crosslinked any unusable. since I installed on a clean drive with NTFS, a crash means a tolal loss for every thing since the last backup.
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>>BTW, I have installed Win2K - Retail version, and VS6 SP3 (now SP4) on 2 different machines, with diffferent hard drives, vidiel card, CPO, and MB chip set, with the same results. That should eliminate the hardware as a cause.
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>>Another developer tested his machine, by turning off the power with forms open for editing, and did not suffer corruption. (I have had this occur when the power switch on the UPS was bumped to the off position and have tested this way myself. My files were destroyed in this scenario.)
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>>It seems I must have something set incorrectly in VFP or Win2K. Has anyone else seen this and found a solution.

John,

At least someone esle has this problem, so I know I'm not alone. <g>

I haven't noticed FPTs gettng dumped, but FRTs do. And you are correct that VFP neededn't be open. Just have been opened and have edited or run a form or report, since the last reboot. Once rebooted, it seems to clear whatever buffer is being help open. I suspect that when a temp file of some kind is found open, Win2K "cleans" it up, and as a side effect, "cleans up" the orignial also. I am using a binary backup tool fom Aladdin called "Flashback", which helps a lot, as I can recover the last save, but is still a major bug in VFP/Win2K. I just can't figure why it only happens to some of us.

Thanks for the reply