For S&G's try this. Right after you create the cursor that's horking out, run the query again to a different name - then see if you can append from dbf(). I'm wondering if perhaps you have a sector trying to go bad and you just happen to be hitting it. Or, you said that you can select the cursor with no problem, have you browsed the entire file?

>>Is this a local application, or is it on a network?
>>If on a network,
>>is there a size limit on the directory?
>>does the userid the application is using have write/modify rights in that directory?
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>Hi Dorris,
> It is runninng locally now, it will run on a network. The user (that's me) has write and modify rights on the directory and there is no size problem. Other files are written to the same directory without problem.
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> Thanks!
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> Best regards, Chaim