>I have an application that runs locally but uses data from a file server. Occassionally the application is run by more than one user at a time. I know its clumsy but the app does not use buffering or pay any special attention to record locking.
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>Occassionally when I shutdown I get a wait window that says "Attempting to lock" and the main foxpro window refuses to close although the top level form of the app does close. I'm not sure what causes this but I suspect it is either a network traffic problem or another user has a record that for some reason my instance wants to access. So my questions are . . .
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>1. Does anyone know what this is and how to deal with it?
>2. Is there a way to "take away" a file from another user who may have it open but is not using it. (he went to lunch and left it running)
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>I am not a network administrator but I am the programmer and owner of the application.
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>Thanks for any help.


If you are using the default setting from 8.0 SP1, you may want to look at the following information:

http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~SetTablevalidate~VFP