>>>>Hi Gang!
>>>>
>>>>In this app, I have some code doing an INSERT INTO command, adding records to a FREE table.
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>>>>The user can select how much data they wish to place into this table, to be converted into a text file, then sent by the internet to another location.
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>>>>Problem is, they COULD chose a lot of data to send at one time.... enough to overload the table and get it over 2 Gigs in size!
>>>>
>>>>Well, I get an error message from the system about it.
>>>>
>>>>Any way to catch this using a TRY/CATCH error trap?
>>>>
>>>>Thanks!
>>>
>>>Yes, try with TRY/CATCH. Also you may try to pre-calculate the size and issue a warning in advance.
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>>Is there a particulare error code for this circumstance I can check in the CATCH statement?
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>I think the error would be NOT A table, but I'm not 100% sure.
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>See also File "name" is too large (Error 1190)
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>The file is too large to be modified.
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>The file is larger than 2 GB.
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>Use another method to reduce the file size, and then try again.

Thanks for the info.

The TRY/CATCH worked fine.