>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.

Can you issue this command from the Command Window? If you're trying to do this in your app and it fails, it may be that you've included the data table in your project and that will make it appear as "read only". You need to exclude the data table from your project if that's the case.