>>>>An interesting thing about this condition and VFP8's SET TABLEVALIDATE to 2... on my
>>>>system, but not GarrettF's, no error is raised when buffered and without TRANSACTIONS
>>>>and TABLEUPDATE return is ignored. The TABLEUPDATE has to be checked for not .T.
>>>>in order to get the prescribed error.
>>>
>>>I only vaguely remember this. Message number?
>>
>>Re: UNTRAPPABLE errors? Thread #769706 Message #772740
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>Oh, ok. Now I remember. I just ran the code again on my XP box (same as before) to see if anything had changed in my setup: same results.

This caused me to try it again this morning and, to my surprise, I now get the expected result (as you have all along).

Still can't get the error in a TRY...CATCH though.