>Bruce,
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>Thanks for the insight. The buffer mode is set to "none" and the cursor is set to 1 or "use form setting." I think the setting should cause data to be save from field-to-field. Is this correct? I will check out the network situation, now I have no info about that.

Yes, it sounds okay, if you have no buffering anywhere, all updates should *theoretically* be pushed right to the server (or whatever disk the tables reside on).

I used two fixes to ensure that user edits would not be entirely lost with a network/machine crash:

1) Open server tables SHARED whenever possible, I think that may prevent a complete local table copy (with all edits kept on the local machine) from occurring. Only a hypothesis - but I suspect it's true, or we would've heard a lot more about this problem.

2) In places SHARED was not possible (Admin work, e.g.), I closed the tables and re-opened them intermittently, to ensure data updates were pushed out to the server. Used form properties to keep track of status like of current record, etc.

Some other ideas like FLUSH might work, but I could not reproduce the problem easily (or without a PITA), so used only the above two fairly certain solutions. No problems reported in the past few months since these changes were made.