Hiya Josh ---

I'm gonna try that. Also, once I restored my buffering to 5 everthing worked. This points up to the fact that one should never code before the 3rd cup of coffee :-)

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>I've never seen this before when the view connection isn't shared. It could be an issue with a view you opened prior to the one that's giving you problems. Make sure that all your views have a FetchSize of -1 (all). This will ensure that each view completes execution before anything else tries to use its connection.
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>>OK folks:
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>>I open a remote view and attempt to replace a field record by record via a SCAN...ENDSCAN. No other views open. Have set the ShareConnection property to .T. and .F. --- no difference.
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>>Using VFP6. Get the error message when it hits ENDSCAN after the first record.
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>>Ideas? Help?