>>We had such problems before in my former job place. Once the file got locked, only re-booting the computer in question released this lock.
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>We had to reboot a few times, too. At other times, I just boot the users (if a file called "maintenance.tmp" exists, the application quits automatically), but this doesn't always work.
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>And, sometimes the problem disappears by itself after a few minutes.
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>The problem is, this is happening almost every day, recently.
What kind of file it is? Dbf?
Edward Pikman
Independent Consultant