>These settings work for me. Make sure you have SET RESOURCE=ON and that foxuser.dbf (or whatever SYS(2005) returns) is not read-only. I believe these settings are stored in foxuser.dbf.
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>>On the VFP edit properties dialog there are several options like tab width, show column/line position and a check box to save these preferences that doesn't work.
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>>Is there an alternative way of saving these preferences and make them stick?
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>>Or am I missing something obvious?
>>TIA,

They work for me too, it's just that the next time I open VFP they're back to the default settings.

Set Resource is ON and foxuser.* isn't read-only.

Thanks for the help.