Just to confirm and for Mike’s benefit I retested this and it has nothing to do with the Try-Catch. It is a problem with ERASE on XP. Here is what I did.

3 workstations and a server.

On one workstation open up a word document on the server.

On Win2K machine open VFP8, CD to the folder with the word document.
Issue Erase The.Doc. As expected, I get an error “File access is denied”

On the XP machine open VFP8, CD to the folder with the word document.
Issue Erase The.Doc. No error!

There is definitely something wrong here.





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>>      try
>>         erase (lcSecondDoc)
>>         if file(lcSecondDoc)
>>            wait window 'Erase clearly failed because the file still exist! Catch should fire.'
>>         endif
>>      catch
>>         wait window 'Document in use'
>>         .ActiveDocument.close(0)
>>         .application.quit
>>         oWord = .null.
>>         release oWord
>>         llReturn = .t.
>>      endtry
>>

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>Robert,
>
>The CATCH in this case is not firing because no error has occurred (according to Fox). Move your ERASE out of the TRY/CATCH and you will see that no error is generated. The ERASE command does not generate errors. If you want to catch an error for this, you could put an ERROR command or THROW command where your WAIT WINDOW is.