Doug's suggestion about packing is excellent. You might also do your build from a project that does NOT have the data files in it. Even though the data files are excluded from the completed EXE the project will try to lock them during the build. We've found this to cut Build errors substantially on large projects.

HTH
Barbara

>if i have been in the development environment editing and running
>a project, quite frequently, my build will hang part way through.
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>the project has about 75 forms, 50 reports, and 80 prg files.
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>if i exit and come back into VFP6 it will complete the build ok.
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>is this a common experience. other than exiting and coming back
>in, is there anything i can do about it ?
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>i have 2 or 3 projects that do this.
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>thanks for any suggestions...