Al --

Antivirus scanning? Really? Am most curious why that might be a consideration.

The odd thing is that this is intermittent, working correctly something well over 99.5% of the time ...

Last of all, the cursor is created with ReadWrite, so there's no filtering involved.

Jim

>>I have been getting a few really odd errors with DataToClip. The following statement is used a few hundred times daily (in a single method -- it only appears once in that method.)
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_vfp.DataToClip (lcStruct, 99999, 3)

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>>Once a week or so, a user will get an 'Alias not found' (error 13) message.
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>>I am now getting it in a session now as well, and I can verify that there is a indeed a cursor with that name:
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Used(lcStruct) = .T.

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>>I have tried substituting different alias names, and they fail as well.
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>>An ideas what could be going on -- or any remedies?
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>A couple of SWAGs:
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>- test with real-time antivirus scanning disabled
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>- is it possible the lcStruct is a filtered result set from something else? If so, how about creating it with NOFILTER?