>Koen,
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>Weird error. Is mycursor selected from another cursor or table that gets closed? Sometimes VFP will simply filter the FROM alias to mimic a new cursor. Adding NOFILTER to your SELECT statement might fix it.
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>Alternatively: I realize you've condensed the code - but would it be possible to replace the SCAN with something like
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create cursor myCursor2  (field1 i, field2 m)
>append from dbf('mycursor') for llcondition

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>or even
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select field1,field2 from mycursor into mycursor2 where llcondition

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>- You could try commenting out that final SELECT mycursor at the end, since ENDSCAN does that implicitly. I don't think that's what's causing this, though.
John,
Mycursor is not selected from an other table/cursor that gets closed. It is selected from a table which remains open.
The changements you advised are not so easy to be done - to lengthy to give the full reason, not that I want to keep it to myselve. The code used to work without any problem for lengthy time. The last line

select myCursor

was inserted just to be 100% sure the scanned alias is selected after the last using of myCursor2, I suppose it can be removed.
The solution as proposed by Boris does not work, since in my debugger alias()==0 shows always .T. even on the line before endscan, still the error occurs on the line endscan.
I am truly puzzled.
Regards,
Koen