Thanks for the heads up Larry!

Frankly, what I do is dynamic enough that if something gets hosed, I just recreate it from scratch... But I figured that I knew enough to tell her that it was a exclusive problem.

BTW--Paige, open my.dbc EXCLUSIVE... Larry had a typo!

:-)

>I don't believe SET EXCLUSIVE affects database usage.
>
>Try:
>CLOSE DATABASE ALL
>OPEN MY.DBC EXCLUSUIVE
>MODIFY DATABASE
>
>Re-issuing an OPEN DATABASE ... EXCLUSIVE command doesn't work for me. Unlike tables (wher VFP will actually close and open it again exclusively), VFP requires the database to be closed in order to open it exclusively.
>
>>>Hi All,
>>>
>>>When I view my database the "CleanUp Database" option is disabled. will I have to delete all tables, delete database and rebuild everything? Will even that do it? This is about the only subject not yet covered in the DBC search. TIA.
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>
>>>Paige
>>
>>It is an exclusive problem? Try this
>>CLOSE ALL
>>SET EXCLUSIVE ON
>>
>>and then try to view your database...
>>
>>G'luck!