>>This has occured in different versions of VFP, on different m/cs and diff.
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>Could be router problem. Check the Event Viewer of each work station.
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>I recently had similar problem with error reading file and write cache errors. It turns out that my new router wasn't renewing the DHCP addresses at the 12 hour mark. This problem caused a break in the network connection.
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>--Paul

Thanks Paul

Not a network guy myself so don't really know what you're talking about. :-)

However there was a network problem today, and my w/s clock was out by 5 mins or so. I've since rebooted twice since the network admin. had a "fiddle". On the other hand, as I said, this has happened a few times on my stand-alone pc, diff Windows OS, diff. vers. VFP, so not confined to network. Also, up to recently, all my files were on the w/s so never touched the network.

The thing is that this has happened to me a few times over the years so I thought others must have encountered it (and that Sergey would know about it too!) :-)

Terry