>John,
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>Not sure whether anybody else suggested it - but this can happen if there's another copy of the table along your path, that gets opened and quietly packed instead of your intended target. If the table is included or even referenced in your project, that can cause this on your development machine.
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>You could do a gofish search in your project/folder or for debugging you can insert a wait window nowait dbf() to confirm the table that's actually being packed.

Everyone keep offering suggestions - but none of this matters because he does NOT HAVE EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE TABLE !!!! There is no point in doing anything until that is resolved because nothing will work until that happens first.