Here's a stab in the dark, but if you have SET RESOURCE ON, the FOXUSER files will be active. A blind copy of all DBFs and FPTS will try to copy thse files and generate the error.

>As part of an archiving process I have a form that receives a destination directory and a time range
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>I use mkdir() to create the desired directory tree, then COPY FILE ... to move the files
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>copy .exe version, configs, ini
>copy the dbc, dcx, dct
>copy the dbf, cdx, fpt
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>when I run the form from the form designer, it all works correctly, when I call it from the application menu the three database files will not copy and give me a file in use error. All of the other files copy correctly without complaint.
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>I do not have anything in the data environment in the form, nothing is open in any datasession, no database is opened, nothing is used. I CLOSE ALL and so on. wait windows, watch windows, I cannot find anything. Nothing is open
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>What am I missing??
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>tia
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>Al Allison