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>>>It look like some tables are open exclusively by another app.
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>>That is what it looks like... but I thought that by having everyone leaving the app, the database would be totally released.
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>>Does that mean that someone crashing the app, locks it in some way ?
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>Sometime the OS can hold a handle of the file, but before investigating in this direction, try the most obvious cases.
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>Also,I know, its stupid, but do you have open the table exclusively in VFP before running the app? In this case its easy to debug, close the table!
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>:-)

On your second suggestion... No :( .

Not that I would have prefered it though...