>>>Have you actually found the records marked as DELETED in the file, or did you confirm that they were NOT THERE AT ALL? -- big difference.

Nope the records are there, they are just marked deleted.

>>>It worked fine for years and just recently started doing this? What else changed at the same time? New employee? Program corrections or additions?

New employee....but not that new; she was working on this for many months before the problem manifested itself. Naturally, the client will hear nothing of an "employee problem". However they won't swear that the problem wasn't from one person only or a single workstation.


>>>Do you have an error handler that catches "file is in use" errors on an append blank? -- or do the users get "Cancel", "Ignore", "Suspend"?

No it is a real handler that reports if the record is locked.

Weird, huh?

I'm having them run disk checking on both the server and that particular person's workstation. I admit that is a long shot....I'm merely "eliminating the possibility from my inquiries". --- L