>I am moving from FPW26 to Visual FoxPro 6. I am considering making a database as opposed to using free tables, but am concerned that in doing so I will end up with a single huge file (like Access!) instead of my hundreds of much more easily handled and controlled free tables. Will I indeed end up with a 100MB database file, or will I have a small database file which simply communicates with the 100MB of data? Also, will I be able to open up a single table within a database AS IF it it were a free table once I change? THANKS SO MUCH.

FoxPro does not make that mistake (like Access). The database file contains the names of all the files that are contained in it along with additional features like stored procedures, relations, views, remote connections just to name a few. All the tables are still separate files. No worries moving to a database.