I only had a suspicion of this. I cannot get it to happen, as Ian did, with buffermode 3 or 5 in VFP 6. I want to remove the Unlock All from the app. At first I just left it there, thinking is was benign. Now I think it may be causing some trouble.

Much Thanks
Jeff

>Well it sure would be interesting to learn WHY.
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>I can't find anything saying that a record pointer is moved by any lock-related operation and specifically an UNLOCK one.
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>>But having just tested it with Row Level buffering, UNLOCK and UNLOCK ALL BOTH Tableupdate the current record.
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>>Well it does in Version 6 - not sure about later versions.
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>>>>If you only have Record Buffering on, and the Unlock All moves the record pointer, then the changes could be committed.
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>>>Except that the Help makes no mention of UNLOCK moving any record pointer. I assume that it doesn't.
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>>>>>Well anything is possible realy, but UnLock All does not commit table updates - NO.
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>>>>>>Is it possible that "Unlock All" could commit Buffered data from Recno(-1).
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>>>>>>Much Thanks
>>>>>>Jeff