I could write you a book on similar problems. Our favorite was the occasional table that would load without its CDX file. Of course, it was completely non-repeatable. It happened maybe one time in a thousand.

You might keep the transaction but put the tableupdates inside it and check the return values.

Barbara

>Thanks for your reply . . . it's good to know that I am not alone in this situation. I removed the transaction wrapper and did a force (TABLEUPDATE(1, .t. XXXXX)) to attempt to resolve this.
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>Dick Harrold