Actually, yes. I found that if I walked thorough all of the properties it took forever, so, I have a comma separated list (property) of only those properties I need to save, and not all of the properties of the custom object.

Bob


>>Well, you're right it doesn't. In my objects I have a save/restore method where I convert each property to an array element and back. The array has a unique name s_something and then I do a save all like s_*.
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>I do something similar, serializing into basically xml as this opens up other languages. But there is a difference in speed if you have to walk the object, so I was hoping you had found some hidden gem.
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>regards
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>thomas