>Ken,
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>You might try issuing a FLUSH to make VFP write the changes to disk when the form is hidden. When you release the the form, the tables opened are closed and the changes that the TableUpdate() wrote to disk cache are flushed at that time.
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I did try this and it did not help. Tableupdate writes to disk cache and then another operation writes the information to the table?