Thanks Fred. I'll give that a try.

>COPY TO has it's own EXCEPT list.
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COPY TO (yourfilevar) FIELDS EXCEPT notes, notinmodel TYPE FOX2X

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>>The following code dies with an error.
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>>sele countmaster
>>set fields to all except notes, notinmodel && we want to exclude these 2 fields from the copy
>>copy to (savefile) type foxplus
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>>Countmaster is a parent table in a parent/child relationship. The error states that variable 'P1' cannot be found. P1 is a fieldname in the child table. What I don't understand is why this would fail since only the parent table is being copied. I thought it might be a problem with the screen refresh so I set lockscreen to .T. which didn't help. I also tried breaking the relation before the copy which also didn't help.
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>>Can someone explain what's going on and how to resolve this?
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>>Thanks