If your form is not modal, then the code in the prg is continuing, and closing the table while your form is sitting waiting for you to do something.

>I have a PRG that runs a form. timeout! - sneeze attack. I must be allergic to VFP.
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>The PRG has USE mytable IN 0 SHARED
>The end of the PRG has USE IN mytable
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>I searched the entire form and find no place where the table gets closed. My exit button on my form has
>SELECT mytable
>GATHER MEMVAR MEMO
>THISFORM.Release
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>When I press the Exit button, SELECT mytable and GATHER ask me to find a table to use as if the table was closed somewhere along the line. Any other commands that can close an open selected table?
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>I will keep searching. THANKS!