Hi Chris

Just a SWAG, haven't tested this but ... when you create a view with NODATA it's empty. The record pointer should be on EOF(), now when you APPEND a blank record and do a BROWSE the record pointer will move to 1. If your buffermode for the view is 3 this will fire a implicite TableUpdate().

Change the buffermode to 5 and look if it happens again.

HTH
Markus