Simon:

>I have done some reaserach and understand CodeMine can handle files well in excess of this

I think you are on the wrong track here. Codemine can only handle files in the way that VFP lets it. It has no special file handling capabilities. The file size limitation of 2GB is a Foxpro issue - Codemine when using native Fox tables can not exceed this limit. At best, all that Codemine will allow you to do is handle data from SQL back-ends that obviously have no such size limitation. This data can then be "munged" in local Fox cursors and written back to the SQL data store.

HTH.