>>John,
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>>Your statement "when I pack. . ." implies strongly to me that you *ARE* deleting records somewhere, somehow.
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>>good luck
>>Jim N
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>>>This data buffering thing is killing me. There must be something is don't fundamentally understand.
>>>
>>>I have a form that has a grid that holds 'child' records. I have a button to 'Add' new child record and that isn't the problem. The problem is the child record I just added appears in the grid as long as I have the form open, even when I move the parent record around but when I close the form and reopen the form, the record(s) disappear!!!
>>>
>>>I have tried to change the buffer mode on the form from 2 (optimistic) to 0 (none) but the newly added record still doesn't get saved!!!
>>>
>>>If I exit my program and look at the records in the table from project manager, it displays in the status bar that total number of records have increased yet I'm not able to see the records when I open it in browse window. When I pack the table, the total number of records return to previous number before I added any records.
>>>
>>>Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? I haven't had this happen to me since I started using VFP but this is driving me crazy!
>If that was the case, if I set deleted off before I pack the table, shouldn't I be able to see it in the browse window from PM?

John, I have 3 suggestions

1 Look at the data in each record to be absolutely sure that you have the correct ID fields linking parent and child. Use DEBUG to check this before and after you move to a different parent record.

2 Issue a specific TableUpdate() for the Child table after entering/editing each record.

3 If you're working with updatable views, check ALL your update parameters. It's easy to miss one, and you get no warnings, the master tables just don't update.