>Over 10 years ago we did away with memo fields because of the common problem of memo file corruption. (Computer has a bad day or Power goes out, etc. and memo file is now trash.) We changed to using a separate, standard .DBF with each memo divided into 64 byte fields with a key.
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>My question is this: Are memo fields now safe? I don’t hear anything on them anymore. It used to be you would go to DevCon and someone would give an entire presentation on recovering them.

VFP is all in memo fields. Just look at your classes, DBCs, reports, forms, Intellisense... they're all tables with loads of memo fields.

I've had lots of applications where we put a lot of various stuff into memos (text versions of reports, XML files, zipped files, images, scripts, Save To Memo variables...) and haven't had a case of corruption except once when someone did a lot of work on a workstation and then unplugged it from the network to plug the laptop.

Back in FPD2.6 I also had a utility rebuilder for fpt files. Haven't used it since.