Jeff Clark said:
doesn't work, says the application needs to be closed first
sigh
If you are trying to compact a backend from your frontend then you
must close all bound forms and reports as well as any recordsets you
may have open.
You can verify this during testing by looking for the presence of the
ldb file in the backends folder.
Tony
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