>>Have you applied Visual Studio 97, SP 3 to VFP 5.0?
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>Ah, that does ring a bell. No, I've downloaded it but I haven't applied it.
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>Thanks for the reminder.
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>Peter
Try delete tag all before appending, then rebuild the indices. It will be faster than updating the indices while appending the data.
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