Are you sure it's a free table? You can use VFP debugger and step through your code to see what's going on.

>Hi Sergey,
>
>Thank's, one hour to regard this code and i can't see that.!!!
>
>But it doesn't york (My form is Modless and top-level).
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>I have one c:\ipl1 and another one d:\ipl1, this code is in Load Form
>
>

>PUBLIC tcNewDataPath
>tcNewDataPath='d:\ipl1'
>
>.abredatabase(tcNewDataPath)
>.dataenvironment.opentables()
>

>
>and always the c:\ipl1 tables are writen.
>
>The code never pass in WAIT WINDOW 'OPEN FREE TABLE'
>
>Thank's
>
>João