>>I just wondered, has anyone actually tried to overflow the 2GB limit on a Memo file ?
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>I do that kind of stuff for a living. The limit exists, and all kinds of nasty stuff happens when you go over the limit, including making your data corrupt and unrecoverable.

Why doesn't VFP trap for this kind of thing? Doing bad things like data corruption doesn't sound like the kind of behavior anyone really wants ;-)