Nadya:

Somehow you guessed it. The error method was uncompleted. It took hours to correct this trap I set to myself.

Regards and thanks again

Oscar


>Do you have Error Handler active? Something like on error llError=.t. ?
>
>>Under what circumstances VFP does not fails with error 1705 when tying to “use” a table in “Exclusive”?
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>>From the command window I receive the expected error. However, when I try to "use" such table from within my application, no error happens, it just keeps going to the next instruction.
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>>I’ll appreciate any hints.
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>>Thanks in advance and regards.
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>>Oscar Corte