>>>>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.
>
>Yep, I knew that ... that's why I'm asking. All tables are managed through the dataenvironment so I figured that when an app closes (even abruptly) the data is being released.
>
>In any case, I'll double check the code to see if a table is open through there!

Hi Ben,

Just to tell you, what you're not alone. We have Novell network here. If some application was closed by Ctrl+Alt+Del, some tables could be locked by server and could be opened only in read-only mode. The only solution we found so far is to restart workstation, which causes this problem.