CheshireAlan 0 Report post Posted October 11, 2007 I am running TMG 6.12 under Vista and have suffered a sudden problem with my main database. When I try to open it I get the following error displayed: The project requires exclusive access to the data files but the project is open elsewhere at this time. Please close any other copies of the application that are accessing the project and try again. If I click on OK I get: Alias BASE is not found 19 FILTERDATA2 Abort Retry Ignore ................ and when I try SS2 I get: Error -200 Error 83805 File is not a data file And then text say my xxxxxxxx_E.dbf is corrupted Alan Please can anybody help? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jeffpiper 0 Report post Posted October 11, 2007 I am running TMG 6.12 under Vista and have suffered a sudden problem with my main database. When I try to open it I get the following error displayed: The project requires exclusive access to the data files but the project is open elsewhere at this time. Please close any other copies of the application that are accessing the project and try again. If I click on OK I get: Alias BASE is not found 19 FILTERDATA2 Abort Retry Ignore ................ and when I try SS2 I get: Error -200 Error 83805 File is not a data file And then text say my xxxxxxxx_E.dbf is corrupted Alan Please can anybody help? You've probably done this by now but since it thinks files are still being used, have you closed the pc down, left for about 20 seconds and restarted. If that works then Optimise and Validate. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites