>Hi
>
>For a long time, some parts of my software works slow on the network.
>
>Today I found that acces to free table cause the problem.
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>I used to opens and closes the free tables every time that I access to tables.
>
>Question is whether this is because antivirus,
>or work with external free tables is very slow,
>or I have to leave them open all the time,
>Or any other help.

Opening files is one of the slowest operations you can do. What some people like to do is open all their tables when the application starts, and leave them open. If you're using private data sessions in your forms, you can just open the tables in the forms, and they'll use the already open files.

Tamar