>Mike,
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>I believe its a side effect of SET REFRESH ?
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>Try moving the record pointer, then doing a FLUSH to see if that makes the missing records appear.
>
>Malcolm

I'm not examining the live table running in the populating process to discover the records don't exist. I'm actually opening the table in another VFP window using USE and BROWSE, days after the process that was supposed to populate that table has completed and quit its session.

So I can gaurantee its not a FLUSH or FILTER problem.