Jim,

I've now been able to read the details of the SET TABLEVALIDATE command that is new in VFP8.

I'd just like to verify that I am correctly interpreting its operation as regards the parameter value of "2". The Help says for nLevel=2 says Validate record count when appending or inserting records and writing them to disk.

I interpret this as saying that the header's record count is verified before every write to the table and I assume that there will be an error message if a discrepancy is encountered.

Assuming that to be correct I would say that I can achieve perfectly adequate "protection" running with nLevel=2 as with it equal to 1 or 3. Would youu agree?

Thanks for your comments


>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.
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>>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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