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>>It turns out that some of the tables CAN be zapped, and append from'd - the ones that don't have any graphic objects to worry about. But in the command window, for practice, I've selected a target table (the Foxplus one - which is perfectly manipulatable in VFP) and tried to do append from the main table. But nothing happens - no data appended. I've never come across this before. Could it be anything to do with the target table's "pedigree"?
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>Hi Terry,
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>I never seen something like that unless I was appending to the wrong table. :)

Hi Sergey

Hmmm. I clicked on it in the DS window, clicked browse, had it open in a browse window (ensuring the title bar was "active"), then issued "append from ..." in the command window. The browse window remained unchanged - empty. No, I've never seen this (lack of) behaviour before.

Perhaps I'll try typing all in the CW :-)