>>Two suggestions:
>>First: at the old style (before VFP and Tableupdate()), with a while loop trying to lock the record/table with a try time and an On Key Label ESC to exit the loop and make a tablerevert.
>>If you are using transactions do a rollover if fail
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>>Second: at the new style try a while loop with tableupdate(.F.) and check for returned value from tableupdate,... the same than first answer.
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>>Hope this help
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>>Mauricio
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>Thanks again. Both were not my aplications, but I'll try to pass along your suggestions...
Check to see if reprocess is set to zero. If so when one user attempts to lock a record that another user is currently editing (even with a browse window open) that scrolling "attempting to lock message comes up and will stay up until the other user exits that record.