I am trying to catch the choice of the wrong table name. If a user picks the wrong table, I want to display a messagebox that tells them to choose another file, then on clicking OK the user is returned to the getfile() routine. However, I am getting table is already open errors and must be opened exclusively. I have tried quite a few ideas but the errors persist. There must be a way of doing this. Do you know how?

Here is the main bit of code that I am using to open a table.

pcFileName = ""
pcFileName = Getfile('DBF')

Select 0 && Selects the first available work area
Use (pcFileName) Alias crime Exclusive
Select crime

Index On crimedate Tag crimedate && Thanks Sergey
* Set order to that TAG
Set  Order To crimedate