There may be a better way to do it these days but you could use FOPEN to try and get a file lock.

Jon

>Hello, I have a document management module of my application and part of it requires taking file MyFile.txt and renaming it to Last_Name_First_Name_Date.txt.
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>I use the VFP Rename function and trap for the existence of the source and also the destination, but get caught up in situations where the user has the file open ...
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>Anybody have any suggestions on how to handle this type of situation (or similar ones while we're at it, like maybe the original file is read-only, etc.)
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>Thanks
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>Kevin