>>>>I'm at a loss, I'm afraid. If I could see the table I might be able to figure it out, but that's too large to email. :) Isn't that too large to even work? I though VFP tables couldn't get bigger than 2GB? I may be wrong on that.
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>>>>Maybe someone else will jump in here with an idea?
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>>>yup, that's what the msdn library says:

>>>Maximum size of a table file 2 gigabytes

now, maybe that's the problem vfp gets puzzeld/confused and messes up the sizes? i mean 2.1 gb - that shouldn't be possible. and i think that limit is possed on all files attached to the .dbf. wiered - to say the least.
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>>I think there might be a confusion here between gigabytes and billions of bytes. That makes a difference of ca. 7%. 2 GB is exactly 2147483648 bytes (somewhat more than 2.1 billion).
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>that's very possible, but as you probably already saw, he corrected himself, he was talking about the database size - not table size.

But a database in vfp is a table.

Alan