Hello Michael.

Yes, I use buffering, Optimistic Record Buffering.

Do yourself a BIG favor and save yourself a lot of hair-pulling - move to table buffering ASAP. The reason is this: anything that you can so with row level buffering you can still accomplish with table buffering but your have total control of when (and if) a record is tableupdated. With row level buffering, VFP attemps an implicit TABLEUPDATE() whenever the record pointer is moved. There are an owful lot of commands and functions that move the record pointer behind the scenes. Therefore, with row buffering you are constantly fighting what VFP is trying to do behind the scenes in a misguided attempt to be nice to you.

Just my $.02