Gordon,

Do you have the complete source code from immediately before you made these changes? If so, I would build an .exe from that, and see how that .exe behaves...is it the faster or slower variety...


>Jim,
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>The actual change was how I named text files that are exported. Instead of auto-incrementing the filename-001.txt, the user requested that I have a fixed filename.
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>e.g.
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>Instead of:
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>filename-001.txt to filename-999.txt
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>The user wanted:
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>filename-001.txt = all data e.g. A-Z codes
>filename-002.txt = data of a specific type e.g. Only code M
>filename-003.txt = all other data that is not the above specific type e.g. Every code but M
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>
>The slowness was detected during an Import of data, not an Export. The main data entry form was also slow.
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>Thank you,
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>Gordon.