>>>>What I meant though, was that once you zip both the DBFs and CDXs and the next time you refresh just the DBFs in the existing zip file. Well, if you did that, on decompression you'll have older valid CDXs with newer DBFs.
>>>>Sorin
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>>>I had a situation where the user looked at the ZIP file de-compressing files, and when it said 'exploding filex...' instead of 'inflating' she panicked and turned off the computer.
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>>>Total disaster. Files corrupted, WIN95 messed up, etc. :-(
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>>>Barbara
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>>ROFL. Please send this to Michel for the entertainment page on VFPYP. :)
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>>Vlad
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>Next time I'll have this screaming, hysterical woman call YOU for help if you think it's so funny! :-0
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>I didn't start laughing until I was making out the bill for fixing it all up again - then I laughed all the way to the bank.
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>Barbara

Sounds like some of my customer's. No backup either i guess?? Speaking of backing up data, I have a customer who had a tape backup system installed (not by me, unfortunately) to speed up the nightly process. Well one day about a year later her system crashed and corrupted tables. She called me for assistance in doing a tape restore. Nothing on the tape. I asked her how she did the backup. "We leave the tape in all the time." The short version is she assumed that whatever they did during the day "automatically migrated" to the tape. They did not have the scheduler activated nor did they manually use the tape drive software to initiate backups.

I guess it's kind of like putting your biology book under your pillow the night before the big exam and hoping the theory of "learning by osmosis" really works.