>>We are writing an application in VFP5 and we have the database and it's tables on a network drive. I have a couple of people who are testing the application for me with an executable file on their local drive and using the data on the network drive. When I (the only developer) try to BUILD APP app_name FROM app_name, I get a File Access Denied error. The status bar looks as if VFP is trying to open my Database.dbc exclusively. As soon as I have my testers quit there programs, I am then able to build my app.
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>>It is nessassary for us to share the data on the network if at all possible. But when I am trying to constantly build apps, it is driving us crazy. Anybody know about this or has a solution?
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>>Thanks in advance.
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>>Bill
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>Yep.. we noticed that to... you must have exclusive access to the .DBC to build the ap.. very wierd.
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>My suggestion is not to link your project to the live database.
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>BOb

Thanks for the reply! What is weird is that there is no exclusive access to the .DBC and yet we get file access denied errors when building the app.

I removed the .dbc from the project, compiled, added it back, compiled and guess what? It worked for about four or five builds and then got the file access error again. I did this several more times (because I am hard headed) and the same thing would happen. I could get a few builds and then the error.

Suffice to say, the DBC is no longer on the project.

Thanks again.

Bill