MartyConnelly 
      martyconnelly at shaw.ca
      
      Tue Aug 17 10:59:11 CDT 2004
    
Try moving your tables with this command from debug to a new mdb.
It may remove the lock.
    SaveAsText 6, "", c:\access\mynew.mdb"
Paul Rodgers wrote:
>The main table in a database won't be copied. Access says another user is
>busy with the table. But this is not so.
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>I can't copy the table and rename the table, I can't import it into another
>database, I can't use a MakeTable query to do it that way. 
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>I can copy the whole database, but that same table in the copied database
>refuses to be copied - or to be renamed.
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>I can steal it with Excel - but then I lose all the lookups and the like.
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>Anyone had this problem before please, anyone found an answer, please? 
>Cheers paul
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Marty Connelly
Victoria, B.C.
Canada