Hi Jim

It is version 9 (no service pack) under Win XP on laptop

Furthermore and forthwith

On my laptop I pretty much get the problem in the same places. When I tried placing the data on a different physical drive the problem shifted and was less frequent. I'm not sure what this is telling me. Perhaps it is a caching issue.

I am in the process of trying it on another computer.

Regards
Geoff

>What version of VFP?... On what workstation OS and Server OS?... Any wireless involved?
>
>good luck
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>>Just an update.
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>>The problem does not appear to berelated to a corrupt index either (unless it is becoming corrupt but continued updates in the session). I deleted and recreated all tags on the affected files to no avail.
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>>ho hum
>>Geoff
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>>>Hi
>>>
>>>I am getting the above weird error when doing a TABLEUPDATE on a remote view. The remote database is a VFP database and the column refered to does not exist but it is not in the update list either.
>>>
>>>I seem to get error after a certain amount of records are processed.
>>>
>>>The strange thing is that if I repeat the TABLUPDATE command it works (appears to). Unfortunately, I also get a Window SERIOUS ERROR not long after. If I restart the process at the same position in the table where the error occurred it also works.
>>>
>>>Does anyone have I have any idea why it is occuring?
>>>
>>>Regards
>>>Geoff Scott