I had this happen on one of my apps once (until I fixed the cause). If I did a control-alt-delete I would see the my program still in the list. If I did an end task on the program it cleared the lock.

Hope that helps.

Rob

>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>I am taking over the support of an application and I need to investigate an error that sometimes happens.
>>>
>>>The error is : (2005) Error loading file ... Loading form or data environnement:File Access denied.
>>>
>>>This is happening occasionnally, and it seems that generally it is when that application crashes (it happens from time to time), although I haven't witnessed the whole sequence of actions when it happens.
>>>
>>>I thought that after all users left an application, the database would be released.
>>>
>>>It seems not ... or am I wrong ?
>>>
>>>I'm looking for ideas on how to track this problem.
>>>
>>>TIA.
>>
>>It look like some tables are open exclusively by another app.
>
>You can reproduce this behaviour by openning 2 sessions of VFP.
>Open a table exclusively in the first and try to run a form that use the same table in the second, the error message will appear.