>Hi George,
>
>Thank for your help and advise. However, is there any way to remedy this
>problem since VFP5a and 6 indicate it as 'not a database'. I can't open
>it to purge the data. Please kindly advise so that I can access the
>data again.

I think that you have you're answer. The only problem would be if there were memo fields involved. If not, you can calcuate the size of the table via:

HEADER() + ((RECSIZE() + 1) * RECCOUNT())

If memo fields are involved, then you need to subtract RECCOUNT() - 1 from the result. At least that seems to be the case.