Hi, Alex-
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>I corrupted a table when I entered a hot key while editing a field in a textbox on a grid which shows a table with record source buffering = 3. The textbox.value gets REPLACED into field and tableupdate(.T.) all within the valid depending on conditions. The hot key was supposed to append a record.
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>I admit, I never worked with bufering before without the help of Codemine.
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>How embarrassing. The question: How do I recover the data? In the future I'll take precautions.


Sorry to be dense, but do you mean corrupted? Or just that you overwrote the data? FWIW, I'd suggest _always_ using table buffering. As the Great Jim Booth said, you can always duplicate the behavior of row buffering with table buffereing, but (my wording) row buffering can sure bite you on the butt. <s>