No, Reprocess works for VFP locking only. If a .DBF is locked by some outside process, you'll get 'Access denied' or 'File in use' error immidiately on USE. My guess is that in your case .FPT is much bigger than .DBF so you most likely get errror on .FPT than .DBF.

>USE reacts well during copying of myTable.DBF, because it discovers that some other process is currently locking myTable.DBF. SET REPROCESS defines the behavior in that case. But when USE finds out that myTable.DBF is not locked, it will open it, only to find out a tiny bit later that myTable.FPT (or CDX too?) is locked. And then, instead of doing what it would have done if myTable.DBF was locked, it will generate the error 'Memo file is missing or invalid'.
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>What's your insight?