>I'm having trouble gewtting progressbars to work. I have the one that came with VFP 5.0 plus some others I downloaded from the thread. My difficulty is I don't understand how it works. If I'm using the progressbar to ease the mind of the user while the app saves all tables to a zip drive, how can I link the progressbar to a table that's not opened? If I use COPY FILE MYTABLE.* TO E:\MYTABLE* how can I link the bar to the recno()?

Why not let the built in one in VFP work for you?

set talk on
sele * from mytable into talbe c:\mytable

You are missing the cdx file but you can then create it.

__Stephen