Hi Neil,

>To be specific is difficult, as the problem varies in the type of corruption/problems dependant upon the OS version. All I can say is, if you run VFP on a network with write & read caching & oplocking enabled you WILL get corruption of the DBF's, CDX's & FPT's, if you disable all of the above you won't.

> Also the Dataaccess recommendations give a pretty good explanation of the problems experienced with read caching & oplocking by the manufacturer's of Dataflex.

I don't share that experience. I've got quite a few applications out there that run various kinds of networks and did not have a single identified report of corruption within 5 or 6 years. Now I am not the system administrator and can't see how the server is configured but I think it is safe to bet at least a great portion of them did not follow those reccommendations.

I agree that the steps you provided will reduce the change of having a corruption, but in my experience it is on the average not neccesary to do so in order to run you VFP applications safely.

But anyways, your documents could give a good explanation why and how it could go wrong in certain circumstances.

Thanks again,
Walter,