>>Any way around this?
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>>>Yes. VFP 8 added some additional checks for table corruption.
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>>>>After moving to VFP8 from VFP7, certain areas of my application seemed to have slowed down considerably. I think I've pinpointed it to the opening and closing of tables. Does it make sense that simply opening a table with the USE comand is slower in VFP8?
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>You can change the SET TABLEVALIDATE command to not do the checking, but be warned, you may be creating a potential "weak spot" in your app to corrupted data.

I already did this, but it still takes longer to open the tables.