We added SET TABLEVALIDATE to VFP8 after the public beta, so you can SET TABLEVALIDATE TO 0 to turn off the checking, then USE and PACK the table, all in VFP8.

>Now I seem to recollect that VFP8 has been changed to assist in mitigating the impact of the MSKB #293638 and that the recommended fix is to open the table using VFP7 and PACK it. This of course may have changed in the final version, but this is what I remember from the VFP public beta Help for a new error message near the end of that part of the Help.
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