I start out with plain VFP and set excl on and open database exclusiv
the cleanup and validate work (wich require exclusive use) so I am sure it is open exclusiv.

Peter

PS I think I have to start from scratch!


>Do you have the project open on a data tab? Be sure your project is closed and the database is closed BEFORE you open it again exclusively.
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>>i have the dbc ope exclusivly, did clean up database, did validate datbase recover cleaned up again and still no potatoes...
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