Actually, this error was occurring during an overnight job (under "Scheduled Tasks"), so there was no user around.

Jim

>Hi James,
>Is this an error you experienced, or is this a message from your ErrorLog? I ask because if a user closes the form as it's running this code, (DOEVENTS), you might see this sort of behavior.
>
>>Any guesses on how an alias can disappear?
>>
>>I have the following:
>>

>>      SELECT * FROM components INTO CURSOR MyComponents ;
>>         WHERE KitID==lcPartNo
>>      llIskit = 0<RECCOUNT("MyComponents")
>>

>>This is in a loop that is executed a few thousand times. On rare occasions, the second line fails with "alias not found" ... and when this occurs, ALIAS() is empty! That's right, I get a cursor with NO alias.
>>
>>Any guesses on how to get around this? (No, it's not as easy as doing RECCOUNT() -later on, having done various and sundry other things with other SELECT statements, I need to get back to this alias --)
>>
>>Thanks