Either this was directed just to me, or something glitched in headers... At 10:50 PM 10/30/2015, gypsy wrote: >Thank you for the response. > >The string was not typed exactly - I could not copy it and did the best I >could and of course abbreviated tmg. It is still unusual to be accessing a project stored within the application program folder -- which should be treated as read-only if the OS didn't do that itself. AND as mentioned, that project appears to not have a name since there is nothing in front of the _nd. Visual FoxPro uses a variation of dBase database structure where each "table" consists of three files: an index file, a fixed-width data file, and a variable width text data file (the fixed-width file has a pointer to the variable width to locate string data). TMG groups all the tables that make up a project by using a name of the form <project>_<tableID>. >Every time I try to restore I keep getting the same message - some one else >is using the program. Does it really say "the program" or could it be "the project"... I don't believe you can safely restore a backup if the destination project is open in TMG >I have several sqz file saved on both a flash drive and an external hard >drive - which should be ok. > >How do you get your database from the sqz in the external storage to the c >drive? Or can't you. They should just be files -- use your operating system utilities to copy them as needed. (Open the drive from the "(My) Computer" icon, use a command prompt to "cd" to the drive, etc.) SQZ is just a variation of a ZIP archive with contents for building VFP databases. I've never looked at one but since other database archives have also used SQZ my hypothesis is that the ZIP archive collects strings of SQL statements that just do inserts. (Well -- I was wrong. I just opened one -- it IS a plain ZIP archive of the fixed and variable table files, any other accessory files that were specified, but it does NOT include the index files; they get rebuilt as part of the restoration). -- bieber.genealogy@earthlink.net Dennis Lee Bieber HTTP://home.earthlink.net/~bieber.genealogy/