>Tell us again how you handle these occurrences in your code such that your does not exhibit this bug (as you call it).
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on error do errhandler?

Are you saying that VFP should not report errors - or are you saying that VFP should not report errors when it suits a particular vanity related misnamed, mislocated files (those are errors/bugs too, No?)

It seems what your saying is "I deleivered a program to a user but forgot something and now the damned program is broadcasting to the user that I forgot to include something in the delivery"

Lets say you implement the "SET OPENDIALOG OFF". Then what happens? The file is not available - so any downstream error that rears its head because of the missing file is a legimate error?

Do you want VFP to hide your mistakes from your user and yourself? Are you searching for a "plausible deniability".

Jim - this sure seems like denial to me. It also seems that VFP is being asked to participate in a conspiracy to pretend an error did not occur.

An application bug is a bug - fix it - we need to make sure we don't give our prospects (and their hillbilly IT teams) any fodder for negative attitudes regarding our development platform. We've been going through that for years.

Fix your bugs - do ask VFP to help you hide them!:)