>>>Hiya Ed
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>>>>Would it be better to use NOFILTER?
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>>>He was, originally. I think he just forgot to include it in the last post.
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>>I have never had problems with NOFILTER. I guessed it was just Explorer refreshing problem.
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>Edward, John, Satya, Garret
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>I've not forgeted issue nofilter. i've checked this: empty temp folder
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>select all * from polizas into cursor ppp nofilter
>? file(dbf("ppp")) && returns .f. always. and explorer only shos me the dbf + 1 tmp file. Even i wait a lot and refresh with 'f5'
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>Check it again please. I have windows 98 and VFP 5.0 with sp3

Probably, VFP is smart enough to see that what you want is exact copy of existing table, if so why shouldn't you use COPY TO?