I opened appreg01 before & after the counter shows in edit form. There was no difference in the table at all.

Out of curiosity, I deleted the counter from the registry, through the edit window. then opened appreg01 with set deleted off. And a deleted record showed up as keyname: Counters.Primary Key Table3.

However this record never shows up as a non-deleted record. Stange!

When I tried to add a new record with this entry deleted i got an error 1098 in lockcounter. Primary key counter does not exist.