For me it dies a quiet, dignified death. I get the form load error message as coded, and when I click the ok button, VFP7 simply quits.

I agree it should not quit on me (doing this in the ide), but I do not get a C5 error.

Alan

>Hi All,
>
>Sorry for the last post - dang send button got in the way...
>
>Try creating a form (base form class is fine) and adding an opendataerror property, initialized to .F. - Set the forms datasession to private. Add the following code to the LOAD() method.
>
>

if thisform.opendataerror
>   MessageBox("Someone is using the system exclusively")
>   return (.F.)
>endif

>
>Next up, open a file called test in the data environment. In the ERROR method of the data environment put the code.
>
>

>do case
>case nError = 1705	  && Access Denied
>	thisform.opendataerror = .T.
>case nError = 1995    && Unable to init data env
>	thisform.opendataerror = .T.
>case nError = 1967	  && Data Env already unloaded
>	* Do nothing - caused by a previous Init Error
>otherwise
>	ERROR nError,
>endcase

>
>At the command prompt, open TEST.DBF exclusive and run the form. Does yours die and excruciatingly painful death? Mine does every time. This method worked great in VFP6 but dies every single time in 7.0.
>
>Maybe I'm not phrasing my queries right, but I can't seem to find any mention of this issue anywhere out there. Is it just me? Have I finally lost it?
>
>TIA