>>>It could be one more problem: INLIST is limited by 24 values.
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>>Although also to consider, remember there was a major bug where IN did not work, only INLIST. I think it was it was only with Views, not sure if it was ever fixed.
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>I do not really remember what was the case. Is it something when IN does not work and NOT IN does?

No...it was a bug trying to use IN with a list of items, like

...WHERE myfield IN('a','b','c') && did not work

It did not work in vfp3 and 5 before SP3 came along, I think. It was fixed at that point, I believe.