James,

It's not recommended to use foxuser.dbf from previous VFP version because internal structure of binary data in foxuser.dbf may change between VFP versions.

>I seem to be having trouble getting this message to post right:
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>I am trying out the VFP9 public beta and opened a current project to try out the cool new report features, but all the text in my editor windows is rotated about 45 degrees!!! For every method or PRG I open I had to right click on the window, go to the Font dialog, then close (OK) the font dialog to get the text back to normal horizontal alignment.
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>To get rid of the rotation without having to reset each window as I opened it I deleted all my WINDMODIFY and WINDSNIP records in my FoxUser file, packed it, then re-established my edit defaults.
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>The only thing I can think of that might be unusual is I always change my edit defaults in VFP 6 and 7 to font: Courier New 9 pt., tab and indent: 3, show line number and column on. Changing the defaults in VFP9 doesn't seem to clear the rotation problem by itself.
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>I would guess that the new GDI+ features in VFP9 provoked an incompatible change to the Font information stored in the WINDMODIFY and WINDSNIP records?
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>...Jim Hansen