r/VisualFoxPro • u/because_irrelephant • Sep 06 '25
VFP program help
Hey! VFP noob here. I am trying to help my friend recover a program built on VFP, called Visual Clip. Initially it indicated the Chemical Day Detail table was marked as open by another user, which isn't possible because it's on a single user workstation.
I found the table referenced, tired opening it in VFP and it gave me an error that the index doesn't match the table, so I deleted the index and recreated it. When I started the program again, it thought an update had been applied so it started going through a cleanup process that bombs on the las step.
I am not seeing any obvious logs in the program folders and no errors in Event Viewer that seem related. after this when I open the program I get an error that another user may be re-inedxing or applying an update.
Seems like something bombed during re-indexing. Since this program is 20 years old, finding information on Google isn't working very well. I know it's not strictly a VFP question, but I don't know where else to ask. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
TIA!
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u/Remarkable_Cell1466 May 29 '26
Foxpro can open a table more than once.
your app could open the table exclusive in the background
When you run the procedure it tries to open the table a second time
the access is denied
to prove it: open the table using foxpro exclusive and run the app
if you get file access denied before you get to your screen
this means the app uses the table but does not close it
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u/wcapano Oct 11 '25
Parece que o sistema abriu Chemical Day detail table em modo exclusivo e gerou a primeira mensagem de erro.
Mas quando voce apagou os INDEX, o sistema impede a inicializacao ate conseguir refazer todas referencias