>I guess this is just a VISUAL Fox forum but I know a lot of you all go way back with FoxPro. This is the first time I've seen the Universal Thread - Sweet! I'm doing other stuff these days but get called in to support an old dbase app that is being run in FoxPro for DOS 2.6 (b?). The latest problem is a real stumper!
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>Records are being misteriously marked for deletion when they shouldn't be. EVEN MORE MISTERIOUS - THESE FILES WON'T PACK; NO ERROR - THEY JUST DON'T GO AWAY.
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>Has anyone seen anything like this. I know its not much to go on but I'm at a loss to even know where to start. Very little code has been changed since April '96 and the behavior just started in October '96 (or later). We can't get it to reproduce either but it has happened three times now. Questions have been raised about operating system interference, index corruption, file corruption - you name it. I was leaning towards programming error but the fact that the records won't pack have me scratching my head. They've been running the app under windows - I suggested they stick to DOS for awhile.
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>Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

carol, have you by any chance added a lan in addition to windows? you may want to try adding 'exclusive' to your USE statement (may as well start getting use to thinking multiuser anyway). without more information, this is my best guess.