>>Hi Guys,
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>>>Are you setting some other property of the cursors elsewhere? This code, called from form.load will not cause this message by itself.
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>>Try setting AutoOpenTables to .F. then do OpenTables()
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>That did the trick. Thanks to both of you.
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>Erik, Is the code you supplied to me normally contained in a procedure or a function? When I put it directly in the form.load, it works ok but when I try to call it with "Do ChangeDataPath in Common with c:\datapath", I get the error says I can only use THISFORM in a method. Forgive my ignorance.

I have it in a form method called ChangeDataPath. The method is defined in my base form class.