>>>Is there a way to see or attach a progress bar on TABLEUPDATE()?
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>>I'm assuming you want this because you would be writing numurous records to disk with the table update. If so, how about using begin/end trans with getnextmodified, tableupdate() and code to update a progress bar? HTH
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>Is there a way to determine how many records are buffered to be updated in a tableupdate()?

Use GETNEXTMODIFIED() in a DO WHILE loop like so:

mnnextmod=GETNEXTMODIFIED(0)
IF mnnextmod#0
mnupdates=1
DO WHILE .T.
mnnextmod=GETNEXTMODIFIED(mngetnextmod)
IF mnnextmod=0
EXIT
ENDIF
mnupdates=mnupdates+1
ENDDO
ENDIF

HTH