Hi Barbara,
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>>I don't follow you - if the Report Designer wouldn't open it, how did you fix it by opening it and saving w/o changes??
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>>Were they the same reports as last time, or different? I'm thinking FOXUSER.*.
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>Sorry, it was the report writer on the client's machine that wouldn't open the report. I fixed it by opening it on my machine. I only tried one report this time, but it was the same as one of the ones I tried last time.
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>>Re: the Zip disk: with SCANDISK or equivalent you'd know for sure... are you going between 2 permanently installed Zip drives or are you using a parallel Zip and a GUEST-type program?
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>>If 2 drives it might be an alignment issue or dirty head. If parallel, a driver issue, cable problem, or improperly configured EPP/ECP settings in BIOS.
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>The zip drive on my machine is an external USB, and is fairly new. The one on the client's machine is internal. I don't know for sure what interface it uses, but it's got to be either SCSI or IDE.
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>Windows 2000 doesn't have scandisk. Instead, they have "error checking". I ran that on the disk and it checked out OK.

It's sounding more and more like there's some problem with the client's installation. If I read correctly, all the errors were on the client's machine. Could they reinstall VFP and SPs?
BTW, did you ever look at Expr?