Hi!

Looks like W2K at last have a feature to track the locking on the file during file copying. If file is not locked - it is not changed, and thus you can copy information from it without any danger. Try in VFP to lock that table and see what happen (Just a suggestion).

I'm pretty sure it is a feature of the W2K Explorer.EXE. Under Windows NT you can use FAR Manager and set option in it to copy file even if it is opened for writing - this was possible under NT. W2K just probably implemented this feature into the user interface.

>I discovered this morning that we now have the ability to take a copy of a DBF file in Win2K even if the file is opened. Basically, I believe all kind of operations can be applied to such a file when it is being opened. That seems to be a new feature of that server. There are some good advantages of that. Is this a setting we can control from the OS to let is as is or to avoid any operation on an opened file?