>I have a screen that 6 users use concurrently all day long, solely for data entry. Every time a new member application is entered and saved, a method creates and inserts at least 3 records into a child table. This particular form has been in operations for a little over a month, with a new app being entered about once a minute on each machine. (about 18 INSERTs/min) and I have seen the 'file is in use by another' error twice. When one user gets it, they all get it, and the table seems to be locked in a deadly embrace; no one can even get to any other records until they close their datasession and reenter. REPROCESS is set to 15 seconds. I would have set it to automatic, but my system can't afford to skip an insert because the user hit escape.

Thank you very much. Now, I see I'm not the only one. :)

What you described is excatly what happens here.

In my case, I may set it to AUTOMATIC has this is a robot application.