Sadly, Sergey, there is no ObjCode field. And I do find a memo with my stored procedure (regular) code in it, but the other 2 memo fields in that record are empty.

I've gone to the backup.

Thanks anyway.

Thanks to Peter too (I cc'ed him here)
Jim


>Hi Jim,
>
>In general it means that compiled code got corrupted. I don't know abour DBC but for form/class I would open it as a table and blank out ObjCode memo filed.
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>hth
>
>>Tried searching UT because I think I've seen this come up, but quotes are not allowed and not is a keywork, so no joy.
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>>I was in a project that showed at VFP startup (last active) and immediately went to do a BUILD EXE. when I clicked OK to build things went wonky, message at bottom saying rebuilding project XXXXXXXX database. It just sat there, with some HD sounds happening sporadically.
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>>Anyway, I had to 'task manager' out of VFP.
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>>On restarting I ggot the subject error message, I guess as it tried to list the tables in the project.
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>>I opened the .DBC as a table, appended a blank, deleted it. No joy trying to validate - same message.
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>>I do have a backup, but prefer to learn how to get this one back.
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>>Any help?