>>Thank you. Then the windows scheduler will be the approach (if customer approves, of course).
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>>>Been there, done that. I would second on Sergey's advice. Do not try to run a VFP service with a timer continuously. It stops working with no reason. We ended up with using windows scheduler itself (also much more flexible).
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>I have found the same - write a regular exe and run it in windows task scheduler works great, and a VFP program with a timer is problematic.
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>Just write your program as a batch - do your task and exit, no READ EVENTS.
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>I found writing out progress to the console and a log file to be useful.
>Rick Strahl has some code on West-Wind.com how to make a console window
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https://west-wind.com/wconnect/weblog/ShowEntry.blog?id=871 >
>And be sure to use Sys(2335) to prevent dialog boxes or other UI that hangs your application.
https://www.tedroche.com/hackfox7/s4g808.html>
>And the last catch is to use a TRY CATCH so you can trap any errors and log them and maybe attempt to email the error details to yourself.
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>Good Luck!
Thank you so much for your input.
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