>>Sorry, I do not use DEs any more, so haven't seen that problem. You can always open the tables in the Load, too, as I do, that will remove the problem.
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>Bruce,
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>For reasons of speed?
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>Just curious as to why you arrived that that decision.

Hi Doug - been away a few days - no, not for performance, I don't think that's an issue. Basically, to have more control over things. We have a very large app with dozens of DBCs and hundreds of tables in each one (several unique table types) that are identical in structure but have different names and paths. I use common ALIASes for all identical tables, but the easiest way to open them for dozens of forms is to do it manually once. Mainly, I do this in a top-level/entry-screen based on user access-level and selection, though a few are done in Loads of forms opened later, all based on top-level property path-strings created from user selections & access rights.

DEs just didn't work well for this kind of app. And then once I built a "framework" method of manually opening tables, indexing views, setting different buffering levels, some tables opened EXCL, some aren't, etc, I just became accustomed to it, even in apps that aren't as complex...DEs were to confining for a lot of my tasks, I guess is the bottom line.