>Ouch! Sorry Chris.
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>I only started using UT yesterday and I am still getting used to displaying messages in order received. I do apologize and thanks for the info you gave me.
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>Yes I do have a unique field that I created by taking some information from 3 other fields. I then use this 'Combine' field to run a duplication check. After I create a duplicates.dbf I supply the customer with a file they can browse and make changes to. In the meantime I carry on working on the master.dbf that does not contain any of the records in the duplicates.dbf
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>Once the customer returns the duplicates.dbf with changes I append it to the master.dbf.
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>That is why I was asking how I would delete the records used to create the duplicates.dbf so that I have a clean unique records master.dbf
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>I will make sure that I read the messages properly next time so that I respond to the right person.
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>Thanks
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>Peter

I was just kidding you < g >.

I think you can take the Duplicates table returned from the customer and do something like this, provided the records in the tables are linked by a field named ID, and the Duplicates table has a primary key on ID:


USE Master IN 0
USE Duplicates IN 0 ORDER ID EXCL

*-- Get rid of all the records the customer deleted
SELECT Duplicates
PACK

*-- For each record in the Master table, see if the corresponding record
*-- is in the Duplcates table. If so, the customer may have made changes
*-- to it, so delete the old record (the one in the Master table)
SELECT Master
SCAN
IF SEEK(ID, "Duplicates", "ID")
DELETE IN Master
ENDIF
ENDSCAN

*-- Any records the cusomter changed are added to the Master table
APPEND FROM Duplciates