Hi All,

I am using this connector for a few days now and I am quite happy with it.

Recently I had to deal with a connection to a 3rd party Visual Foxpro database in which I couldn't connect because the dbf file I wanted to access was locked by another app which was using the same file at the same time with mine.

I was able to bypass this by using the ConnectMode="Unsafe" parameter and it worked as expected. I was able to read the data I needed.

My question is how unsafe is it?. Let me explain, my app will only read data from these dbf files, it will NEVER write anything, can the ConnectMode="Unsafe" cause any problems to the dbf files if my app only reads data at the same time with other apps that may read or write data in the same files?

Thank you.

Christos