Glad that you took the time to report it here, Tracy. Right now it doesn't mean much to me, but who knows as regards someone else, or when other observations are added.

cheers


>>>The set tablevalidate to 0, does allow me to open the table. Thanks, that will be a big help in fixing the table. But like you said, we need to figure out what is screwing it up.
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>>Good. Now since you have a 'live' situation on your hands, let me ask that if AT ANY TIME you even have a hint or idea of what might be factors in the cause, please come and discuss it here in a thread. My belief is that the more information we have circulating about the problem, the better the chance to NAIL IT.
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>Jim,
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>This is an Odd thing, but I thought it might be vaguely related to this thread.
>I wrote a simple test prg. Clicked the red ! on the toolbar. Looked at the results displayed on the VFP Screen, and decided to run the speed test again, just by clicking the red !. This time I got a Syntax error.
>In my command window I have the following entry:
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DO "c:\documents and settings\tracy\application data\microsoft\visual foxpro 8\foxuser.dbf"
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>At one point after this, I had my FoxUser.dbf corrupt. I started getting a lot of C5 errors just opening something.
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>Don't know if it applies, but it was odd behaviour around the time I had a corrupt table.
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>Tracy