Thanks - Puffed Chest Out (s) I shouldn't complain in that in all other respects the application runs great. Approx. 15 users hitting it extremely hard daily since last September, sends approximately 150-200 faxes daily using FAXPRESS from within VFP, uses ole automation with both Excel and Word for reports and letter writing, has never having a table corrupted and has been up 24 hours a day except the times when I needed to make table stucture changes, runs circles around the AS400 it replaced in term of functionality and useability.

I'll talk to the IT guys tomorrow and see if they can track what is happening, as I too believe it is related to the network. Knowing that it is not VFP related, will embolden my case.

VFP is really a great tool and I thank you Sergey for all your help.

Gaylen

>Hi Gaylen,
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>>Sergey - Thanks I was beginning to feel abandoned. I did some futher testing on their network myself. Sometimes all the records are appended and the next time I run the program only a portion of the records are append.
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>I would answer sooner but I didn't have much to say. :)
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>>I have a control total for the file so I know if the all the records are download. I use a global error handler, but it never errors out, just the wrong number of records are appended. If the total don't agree I have them run the routine again until they get the control total.
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>>At time the downloads is extremely fast and sometime very slow. Speed doesn't seem to be the problem as to getting the full download. It sometime fails to get all the record when it is fast and sometime when it is slow.
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>The slowness may indicate some kind of network problem or maybe there file server is overloaded.
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>>I am thinking I will just copy the file from the network to the workstation's harddrive and then append from the workstation and perhaps eliminate possiblities of a network problem in the append.
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>The copying file may have the same problem. It's strange that nothing else is affected though.
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>>I used to have a program that would append several millions records for a sdf file off a network every few weeks and never had a problem. This is the first time I've used a tab delimited and wasn't sure if converting tab delimited files were problematic.
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>I wouldn't blame it on tab delimited files. VFP would process SDF or delimited file until it encounters EOF marker or end of file from OS.
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>Good luck in figuring this one out!