>Windows sends a "Are you still alive and running?" message to all programs. If they don't respond, Windows adds the "not responding" message to the process. It simply means that VFP is working and doesn't have any wait states to respond to the OS. You get the message because it takes takes longer than your test data.

But why does it take an hour or so to just get the structure against the live database?

oCAParcel.CursorFill( .T., .T. )

Thanks
Dennis