>On a server app, when there was a lot of users simultaneously updating DBF's (part of a DBC) I was getting a lot of Dropped records (e.g. I had an append but the append never actually happened.
>This was definitely traced to high simultaneuous file updating on the system
>Eventually I ended up LOCKING every file before an append and unlocking it after the fields were populated.
>This solved the problem ok !!!!
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>I know the OLEDB works in a differnet way but maybe there is some inherent problem i there

Thanks for the additional information