>>I was appending from a network connection but switched to my hard drive because I also thought it might be getting interrupted. Not the case here. Still only get a part of the .txt file.
>>
>>The difference in byte size is 169,699,042 bytes. I have the .txt file being 218,126,554 and the table 48,427,512 on this particular file
>
>This is an enormous file!
>How much time elapses, typically, before the append fails?
>How many times have you tried it?
>There is a big difference between getting 800 and 20,000 of the expected 100,000+, were these tests both local disk?
>Have you tried this on another box?


Yep, it is! They all are like this!
It's usually a couple of minutes before it quits. But it never stops appending. Meaning it runs straight thru to the 'end'
I've tried it several times. Even had the programmer in Alaska send me another file just to make sure it wasn't corrupted or anything.
Yep, it's on my local drive now.
Yep, tried it on another computer (winNT).

Can you see why I am frustrated? :)