>I am hitting my head against this strange problem. In the application I am trying to open a table exclusive but get error 3.
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>The table does not belong to a database.
>I am the only one running the application.
>No other window of the application is open.
>Right before USEing this table I have CLOSE DATABASES ALL and CLOSE TABLES.
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>Yet I still get error (file is in use, error 3) when trying to open this table.
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>What could be holding this table?
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>Thank you.

This wouldn't be a web application and IIS be involved, would it?