>>>The other day I did CLOSE DATA ALL twice when stuck, and the second time worked :)
>>
>>I used to know a programmer who always called fclose() (in C) twice. Maybe he wasn't so crazy, after all. :)
>
>You cannot close a database while a project has it expanded. The project needs to open the database to show its members. Usually, when I cannot close a database in development, it is because the database is in the project, and is expanded.

Hello All,
good point, (project has it expanded), but I've tried quitting VFP, re-entering VFP, and it still reports the same error, I,ve now stopped including dbcs' in projects and creating a seperate project just for data structures
Regards
Pete Kane