>> Finaly I packed and or reindexed the files and the data appeared fine
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>Do the comboboxes and form work properly now? Perhaps you CDX had some many changes that it just stopped working.

No I still can only get a couple of them to work at runtime. If I exit, take over the tables exclusively and then pack or reindex the data is all there. I just won't work at run time and only on some of the combos. It is the CDX update that fails. The data is put in the table properly. My gut feeling is that in my case the CDX somehow thinks the delete flag is set. My tags all have !DELETED() in them.

Terry