>>>>In Create table statements always add FREE clause if you want to create a temp table (though why would you want to do it?)
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>>>Opening the table from the command window did prompt for a backlink as it did from the program. But I was able to add exclusive to the use which seems to have solved the problem. Thanks.
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>>>Any idea why the backlink wasn't created when the table was created?
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>>No, I'm not sure what had gone wrong when the table was created originally.
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>AARRGH! What I thought was fixed was not. After adding a few more records to the table the backlink is gone again. Following the same procedure seems to fix it for one or two uses but then it is gone again. Can't seem to make it stick. I thought it might be a network buffering issue but then why would the new data stay and the backlink not?


do you have TWO table with the same nae in different folders by any chance?

Peter