Thanks, I'll give it a try and let you know.

Kev
>Hi Kevin.
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>>A lot of our users have notebooks running on NT4 and occasionally connect to the N/W and run an app that does various things, and afterwards it writes back to a memory file on the Local C: drive (using SAVE TO), but occasionally has problems and errors with:
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>>"File Access Denied"
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>This is likely a write caching issue -- I run into it all the time. I've found that adding an INKEY() statement just before trying to access the file resolves the problem. You may have to experiment with the amount of time to wait.
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>Doug