Thanks for the reply which put me on the right track. To really fix it I used:

USE project.pjx
REPLACE ALL local WITH .T.
REPLACE ALL sccdata WITH ''

Rgds

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>>Hi, I get the above message when opening a VFP5 project which I inherited from someone else. After acknowledging the message, the project opens OK and I can modify/build any part of the project. The project was at some stage part of a Visual SourceSafe system. Would anyone know what might cause the above error and how best to fix it?
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>VFP tries to connect to the SourceSafe server. If you don't have access to the VSS database anymore, because it belongs to that other programmer, you can use the following code to detach it from SourceSafe:
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> USE Project.PJX
> REPLACE ALL Local WITH .T.
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>Christof