Subject Re: corrupted file? From Mervyn Bick <invalid@invalid.invalid> Date Sun, 30 Mar 2025 19:18:48 +0200 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started On 2025/03/30 18:27, Charlie wrote: > I noticed a number of qsql.dbf files on the affected computer.  Thank goodness I copied the directory to another computer yesterday and it seems to work fine there.  I think something in dbase is corrupted as i copied the two files from my backup to the affected computer and it does the same thing.  I am hoping that installing dbase again will help fix the problem.  Any opinions? The _qsqlnnn.dbf files are temporary files created by the BDE.  Normal housekeeping should delete them when dBASE closes but they often get abandoned.  dBASE can only handle 1000 of these files and once that many are in the directory dBASE has a problem.  You can safely delete these files, preferably when dBASE isn't running so that you know they aren't actually being used. Mervyn.