>>>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.
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> 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 ;-)

Hey, I learned to accept 2,000,000,000 bytes to be 2GB and bail in time :))
But anyway, you have a point here. Here is another of my (failing) guesses :

Your data will be written (APPEND) into the PC's cache. It's VFP having control there. Also, VFP won't know about filesizes (explicitly).
Now the data is flushed and out there nothing knows about VFP-"logic".
Here you you go.