Lanny,
Quick guess is that the DB is still in use by another program (ie MS
Access),so access restrictions are still in place.
If you seperate the forms and tables (split the DB), then you should be able
torun your macro from the forms part that will copy (backup) the data.
HTH
Dean
> I have tried building a macro with the run command funtcion but it error's
> out. Is there a way much like when you compact the database on close funtion
> in options?