>Hi Mark ----
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>Maybe an active Timer that fires off some sort of message every .n seconds?
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>>On some slow computers, Select-SQL commands dealing with large files will cause the End Task dialog to display VFP-Not Responding. The hard drive keeps spinning, VFP keeps working and before long the Select-SQL is finished and processing continues.
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>>Does anyone know a reason for this and how to stop it?
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>>This is VFP 5, the Select-SQL reads four tables, each with >10,000 records and the query is fully Rushmore-optimized. The only problem the Not Responding message causes is sometimes users think the app is locked up, they shutdown VFP using End Task and possibly damage a file.
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>>Thanks


Good idea, Thanks John!