>>I answered my own question. The users don't have a config file, therefore the cursor is getting created on the server instead of on their hard drive. Once the first person creates the cursor index it seems to lock it up. Stupid.
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>>>Laurisa Watkins
>>>Seattle City Light
>>>laurisa.watkins@ci.seattle.wa.us
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>No, that still wouldn't be the answer. A cursor would be unique to each user anyways, even if it was created on the server. More likely an access rights issue than that.

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well, once I hardcoded the file to their c:\temp\xxx.cdx it worked just fine. IT's sucky code, but I'll fix it once I've thought about it some more. As a side note, something I found in another part of the app (multi developer environment), when he needs to do this, he uses INDEX ON whatever TAG tagname without specifying to "file name". I need to test it, but I'm wondering if it makes a "unique" temporary cursor index; since no one's complained about his section for ages, I can only assume that's what it does. Thanks.