>Ernest,
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>It takes the listview that long to get rid of all of it's internal objects. You might want to see if the listview has a Clear() method to make it destruct faster.
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>Honestly though for 16,000 rows I think I'd use a native VFP grid instead.
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David, the .clear does not help and .removeobject does not help either. The reason I decided on the listview is because it is easy to add a checkbox to the listview that is not bound to any fields in the table and can be used as a final selection within the selected criteria in the listview i.e. to purge/archive records. I think, (I never tried) that in a VFP-grid it is more difficult to use an unbound checkbox. Thanks.