Hi,
Are write caching and oplocking disabled on the server & workstation.???

Try FLUSH with the FORCE option in VFP9 if available.

>Hi
>I am having trouble accessing a certain file. Here I have done a close all,
>set exclu off. I use a table, but get the error when I try to copy the
>table to that file ???
>
>Thanks
>Steve
>
>CLOSE ALL
>SET EXCLUSIVE off
>USE someTable
>COPY TO C:\d\intrin\com\BlankEx &&file access denied error here