If you've scattered to memvar and are inserting from memvar, there's no reason VFP should be referencing the 1st alias at all. Can you post the INSERT INTO line of code that's failing?

>vfp 3.0
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>Hello All,
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>I am copying a record from one dbf to another using scatter memvar,
>however when I insert into the 2nd dbf I get Alias of 1st dbf not found.
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>I have tried copy to array but it still happens, any thoughts?
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>Thanks and have a good day.
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>Becky