>>SOmehow I think the Cursoradapter should be able to work properly. I don't think I'm asking it to do anything to out of the ordinary..?
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>>>>>Can you post your CA definition?
>>>>
>>>>For the cursoradapter in the dataenvironment, the nondefault properties are..
>>>>
>>>>Alias 'cursoradapter1'
>>>>AllowDelete = .F. (Made no difference if AllowWhateverOperation was .T. or .F.)
>>>>AllowInsert = .F.
>>>>AllowUpdate = .f.
>>>>Cursorschema = 'CPARTNO C(18), CPARTDESCRIPTION C(52), IDPARTS I'
>>>>datasource = oapplication.odbchandle
>>>>datasourcetype = ODBC (I've tried ADO too - same problem)
>>>>FetchAsNeeded = .T.
>>>>FetchMemo = .F.
>>>>KeyfieldList = 'idParts' (I've tried with and without this - since no updates then it should not be needed)
>>>>Name = cursoradapter1
>>>>SelectCmd = 'select cpartno,cpartdescription,idparts from base.parts order by cpartno'
>>>>SendUpdates = .f.
>>>>
>>>>AutoOpen and Init methods are standard VFP cursoradapter code from the builder.
>>>>
>>>>I've set FetchSize to various sizes and the cursoradapter seems to fetch that many records when it needs them.
>>>
>>>Review http://www.code-magazine.com/article.aspx?quickid=0703041&page=2 may be it would work better for the job.
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>Have you tried any "manual intervention", such as setting DataSource = "" before trying to close your form?

Just tried clearing the datasource - same thing. In debug it just hangs on that statement in the unload for a couple of minutes before closing.