>I have a large app, many forms/formsets, though only some open at any one time. I have a cleanup prg which runs on shutdown. All is fine except when a there are some unsaved edits in the buffer, and the user closes via the main vfp window (X, icon, menu).
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>Then I get errors from the buffering, because the shutdown/cleanup runs before the queryunload. What's a good way to deal with this?

You can force QueryUnload (or any other form event code) first just issuing formset1.form1.QueryUnload from shutdown routine.