Hi Michael,

>Your project is considerably smaller than mine. I wonder if that makes a difference...

OK, than there could be another reason. VFP queries the status of each file when it opens the PJX file. In this case disconnecting the project temporarily from the VSS database should help:

#Define ccProject MyProject.Pjx
Use ccProject
Replace all User with Iif(Local,"Y","N")
Replace all Local with .T.
Use
Modify Project ccProject Nowait
Use ccProject Again Shared
Replace all Local with User=="Y"
Use

The drawback of this approach is that when you open the project, you get the file status is the one that was current when you closed the project the last time. IOW, you don't see the current check out status. But when you try to modify a file, VFP queries the status for this file again, so it won't report any error. Also, changing the tab does requery the file status.

Christof