>Ok, this is going to sound dumb but I think I just figured out something after all these years.
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>I have a normal modal form with a private data session. (form.datasession = 2) I am not opening the tables in the form's data session. The form is loaded near the top of a prg and there are a number of procedures in the prg that open files for given tasks depending on user choices.
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>I had always assumed that any files opened this way would be closed when the form was closed. I just realized that the private data session still exists and the files are still open after the form is released. I assume that this is because I didn't open the files inside the form's data session.
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>Am I correct?
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>If so where is the best place (what method) to manually close everything?
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>Thanks.

If the tables are opened in that session and session is released then tables are closed. It indicates that there is some dangling reference and your session is still alive (probably would show as "Unknown" if you check in VFP IDE.
Cetin