Is the table marked ReadOnly? This can happen if you copy it from a CD.
>I use vfp7 with sp1 updates in Win2000.
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>Everything runs OK til I copy .exe, all the code and all the microsoft common shared files on to a CD. Before I updated with sp1 I could not index a view, after the sp1 update the indexing didn't produce the "cannot update cursor" error. However the error did occur when a "replace" was attempted on a table. The "cannot update cursor" error did occur when I tried "replace" on a table, to repeat myself!
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>As I said I have copied all the microsoft common shared files to the CD including VFP7r.dll and VFP7renu.dll and the not common MSVCr70.dll. Everything runs OK except when I try to replace.
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>Replace statement is:
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> replace track with titlenum
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>pretty simple, huh.
>Based on some web research I have tried these suggestions:
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> replace moov.track with moov.titlenum in moov nooptimize
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> * select moov
> replace moov.track with moov.titlenum in moov
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>Didnt work! Any ideas?
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>Ron Cherry
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