From: info@sundialservices.com   
      
   Rodney Wise wrote:   
   > When I'm dealing with a directory full of files.... such as backing up,   
   > copying, doing table diagnostics, etc....  I have written (in my OPAL   
   > code)   
   > to ignore certain files...  "thumbs.db"  is one of them.   
   >   
   > Paradox doesn't "automatically" look at or process the "thumbs.db" file as   
   > a part of any of its native functions.... that I'm aware of.   
   >   
   > Since "thumbs.db" has been around a long time now, I think that current   
   > applications should be "thumbs.db" aware.   
      
   In a database system that was being actively kept up-to-date by its vendor,   
   certainly so.  *sigh...*  But there are many different versions out there,   
   and some of them will die in the restructure-dialog if this hidden file is   
   out there.   
      
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