Here is my stab at it:

Have you tried manually flushing the caches first?

Fox has a Flush() function but I do not know about your other caches.

Tom

>Here is an antique for you.
>
>We have a set of databases running in FPD 2.0
>under Novell 3.11. I have encountered a curious
>problem with 486 100 mhz, and pentium 100 mhz
>machines on the network.
>
>With both internal and external cache enabled on
>these machines I OFTEN get corrupted memo fields
>when doing MODI STRUCT. Even more often I get
>corrupted memo files when doing MODI REPO, to the
>extent that it is unusable (every time I try to
>save I get INVALID MEMO FILE).
>
>This happens on the local C: drive also - so
>actually the network has nothing to do with it !
>If I turn off both the internal and external cache
>in CMOS - no problem, I can't get it to crash.
>
>This also happens whether I am running out of DOS,
>or out of Windows 3.1 - so it doesn't have
>anything to do with the windows 32bit IDE drivers.
>
>No problem using or saving files locally or on the
>network - we have a fair number of transactions
>going on. Running the machines without cache is
>not acceptable (try it some time !) they are slow
>as heck.
>Anybody have any ideas on this one ?