Hi Michael,

In our application we unfortunately had this situation quite often. I believe it happens when the table is engaged in transaction and another user is trying to do any other operation on the table such as direct replace or insert (and not buffered table).

>Gang:
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>I have an app that has been running at a customer site for years, running in VFP 6.0 on a Windows (I think 2003) server - and all of a sudden in the morining they are getting the "Record not available ... please wait' message.
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>I have been reading some of threads here on that - but most refer t issues with a Novell network - which we are not running. It could be too many reocord locks or large tables (they do have a couple of tables that are getting close to the 2gig limit).
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>Anyone else have any thoughts?
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>Thanks in advance,
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>Michael Meinberg
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