If the error says "Memo file is missing or invalid" then it may be caused by insufficient access rights. You have to create your forms in a folder where you have full access rights. If you create forms under the C:\Program Files\... then Windows (7 or Vista) UAC does not allow appropriate access and above error appears.

In this particulat case the SCT file can be stored in a different folder than SCX resides in. (Windows can move writable files into so called Virtual storage from Program files). Try to search your C: drive and copy both files into one folder with sufficient rights.

scx/sct is a table like dbf/fpt, so the same rules apply. Also the rule "You can't always repair it."

The question is how many work is really lost and needs to be redone from scratch or from a backup of an older state of the form.

I'd never feel good about working with a repaired form, so even if you fix it with a table repair tool after renaming scx->dbf and sct->fpt, I'd copy the controls and code over into a new form.

Several really simple things to check first: Is the sct file still present? What is the file size? If size is 0 for example you already know there is nothing left over to repair.

Pavel is right the sct file could be in your user profile in a VirtualStore folder, depends on where you store your forms, but even by default that would be in your docs folder in \Vsual Foxpro Projects\, where this does not apply. Even if, both scx and sct would be saved rerouted into VirtualStore. You would always find your sct where your scx is, too.

Bye. Olaf.

It was the hardest way to solve,but it seems to be no aletrnative way.
Kind regards