>I am new to SDT and have a basic question. I am developing a VMP4 app and am using SDT. I have added a form to the app that will perform a backup of all data files (using the article "clBackRest" by Chad J. Lemmer in the April 2000 issue of FoxTalk). The backup works ok but will not copy the various SDT tables. Are these even supposed to be open when the application exe is runnning? If so, is there any convenient way to close them all say with a single command?
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>TIA
>Stan

If you have created the oMeta object as suggested by the SDT docs, the SDT tables are open. Before you backup, you could release the oMeta object first, do the backup, then recreate the oMeta object.