>I have a cursor (VFP50a, Win95) which has a filename assigned, which can be read with dbf(). However, the file does NOT exist in the temp file. I've checked that the temp directory DOES exist, and that the cursor exists - I can browse it. However, I can't access it with the filename. > >There are work arounds, such as using a table and deleting it when the form closes, but I'd like to know why there's a file name but no file. I'm assuming the cursor is completely in memory, but don't know how to work with it. > >Dragan Nedeljkovic mentioned something similar in the 'View, cursor or something else?' thread a week ago. Anyone else have this problem? And found a solution? > >TIA >Barbara You should make no assumptions with VFP. The same Cursor can exist in both Memory & Disk. If you did not explicitly create it then I would not touch it as is may be more of a system handled file. Future versions of Fox can change and your assumptions go out the window. I played with possibly the same thing last week. I tried to force the Cursor to disk, etc, with no luck. Your better off to leave it alone and work with conventional wisdom. HTH, Tom