Hi Alex.

>I added a few fields and then added "MBR_" and mistakenly went to add a new field, without completing the name of the previous field. "MBR_" alone is not an existing field so it did accept it as a valid name. I went back to fix it and it showed a Wait Window saying "Renaming Field" and immediately froze VFP8 (SP1). had to kill the process, and lose all the unsaved changes.

I tried this in both VFP 7 and VFP 8 and didn't see this -- the WAIT WINDOW went away almost immediately and I could carry on without any problems.

Try reindexing SDTMETA and COREMETA, and do a VALIDATE DATABASE RECOVER to make sure that everything in fine.

Doug