>Hello,
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> I am getting an error when I try to open a table in VFP 3.0. I am using the command: USE x.dbf ALIAS x AGAIN SHARED. The error is 'file access denied'. Can anyone tell me what might be going on here? The file is not read-only.
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>Thank you.

If the table is already open exclusively in another workarea or another VFP session, you can not open it again regardless of the use of the SHARED clause.