>Don't fixate too much on the DBC issue, although that can be a problem if the DBC is in the app as VFP will attempt to compile it...

No, VFP does not try to compile the dbc unless you explicitly specifiy that the dbc be included. The default setting for data is excluded from the project, and I have never seen a need to include a table, much less an entire database.

The issue is that when sometimes when a database is part of a project (and not included, the project cannot be compiled because other people are in the database.


.the problem is also in building the APP. What does VFP do to build an APP? It erases the EXE. If someone else is using that EXE....no build possible.
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>The end rule is that you must be the only user if building an APP or EXE if the APP -or- EXE already exists and is in use.


This isn't the issue at all. I run a wrapper around all of my exes anyway, so noone is ever in the network copy, their exe just copies it over if the file is newer than their local copy.