>I just lost 30 records I was adding in an application.
>I use row buffering on all tables.
>Ex: =CursorSetProp("buffering",3,"company")
>All tables are opened when the app starts. None are opened in the DE.
>Every new record I added was lost when my laptop locked up and I had to reboot.
>Existing records I changed were ok for some reason??? I had been adding records over a 2 hour period.
>Since this has never happened to me before should I now issue a flush after
>each save?
>This is how I saved records: =Tableupdate(.T.,.T.,"company")
>
>TIA
TableUpdate() by itself will close VFP buffers, but not OS buffers.
So, to answer your question, I think yes, you should use FLUSH regularly. You should also disable write-cache for the hard disk (or is it the OS?).
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