>I have a DO loop that does a LOCATE. If a record matches the LOCATE scope an operation is performed. The program then does a SKIP 1 and does the LOCATE again.
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>This loop works for about 40-70 iterations, then will just freeze. A check of NT Task Manager shows VFP as "not responding". It is as though VFP just ran out of memory.
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>The total table has about 80,000 records and is 7.1 MB in size.
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>Has anyone run across this? Is there a workaraound?
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>I am using VFP6 SP4 on NT 4.0 SP6.
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>Many thanks.
Take a look at the CONTINUE option for LOCATE.
A corrupt index may be at fault here. Try a REINDEX, or, if your table isn't intricately linked in a database, you could manually delete all your index tags, then recreate them.
Regards. Al
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