>Hi Andrew,
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>>I do have one more question on this. In my experimenting, I set REPROCESS to, say, 3 sec and did *not* receive an error when the record in the "filter scope but not in the join scope" was locked by another VFP instance. This is *not* how locking usually works, as it would normally report an error when it "really wants" to lock a record and can't. Is this by design? Or am I seeing things?
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>The error will be reported if the record should be deleted.
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Aleksey,

If this lock isn't required anyway, why not eliminate it altogether and lock record before deletion only?