>>>Hi Sergey
>>>That did it!
>>>I put had previously put "set deleted on" at the end of the load() method.
>>>Now I put it in front of the Select * statement & it worked!
>>>Thank you for all your help.
>>>
>>>When did you move from New Jersey to the Bronx?
>>>Bill
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>>I, generally, place in the main program at routine to write default settings to the registry at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualFoxPro\9.0\Options. You find in the listing a key for Deleted; simply set its value to "ON". It is my understanding that when a private datasession is initialized it read the default settings from there.
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>>To get a complete set of keys, open the Tools / Options dialog and click the "Set as Default".
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>Except the runtimes don't use the registry settings. That's only for the IDE.

Now that I stop and think about, I agree.