>Hi Satya -
>
>Interesting reason for the lack of being able to find the physical file right away....glad it's resolved.
>
It's absolutely not solved. I've checked a lot in my machine (windows 98, VFP 5.0 Sp3). After the select clause nofilter file(dbf("mycursor")) returns .f. and in the temp folder nothing happens. One or two times has happening same as Satya (cursor number + 1) but now no more. More ideas? Have i the only machine where this occurs? Noone has checked this?