With 3.0.3 I was happily running DP on both a laptop and desktop PC. The database resides on the laptop and is shared onto the desktop PC. Never had a problem.
Now I upgraded both to 3.1 and now I can't access the database anymore. When I start DP on the PC, I get an "Error Loading Database" :

The following error ocurred while attempting to open the database:
DBISAM Engine Error # 11013 Access denied to table '\\Laptop\DVD Profiler\Database\Default\COLLECTION.DAT'

and offers me a selection of options to continue (repair, select other database, create new, close).
When I choose select other database, I can perfectly browse into the shared folder and select the COLLECTION.DAT there, but I still get the same error when opening.

Anyone else has the same issue ?

I know, but it is not running on the other machine. Maybe I should go check whether there is no dvdp.exe process lingering somewhere...

The issue surely must have something to do with access problems to the COLLECTION.DAT file. Even just in Windows on the desktop I cannot copy the file from the share to a local drive. WIndows popup says that access is denied because I do not have permissions or the file is in use by another user.
I'll check tonight if I can find anything on the laptop (I already unshared the directory and recreated the share but no luck).

100% certain .
This is what I did in sequence:
* PC is off, laptop is on: installed 3.1 on laptop, and let it start up (checkbox at end of installation). That went through the upgrade of the database. All is well.
* laptop is off, PC is on: installed 3.1 on PC, and not let it start up (unchecked that checkbox) since it would try to load the database on the laptop which was off.
* did some stuff on laptop (loading updated profiles etc...), didn't do anything on PC.
* then yesterday, wanted to run from the PC: turned on laptop, started DP on the PC and then got the error.

verify the path with open database from within dvdprofiler on your laptop where you're database is located and what name it has.

Quoting Giga Wizard:

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are you still able to surf to the location '\\Laptop\DVD Profiler\Database\Default\COLLECTION.DAT' on your laptop from your PC trough 'mijn netwerklocaties'? If not something is changed in your network.
Wifi connected to your neighbours open Wifi? Windows firewall? ...

Yes, I could perfectly browse to that location. I even tried unsharing and recreating the share, but no change.
However, as I mentioned, this morning I actually tried to just copy (in Windows) that COLLECTION.DAT file to my desktop and there I also got a (Windows) error popup, so it looks like it is Windows related. The file definitely was not in use, or at least not by a DVDP process. I believe there are some tools available that let you see which process is using a certain file. I will give that a go tonight.
Weird thing is that before installing 3.1 it worked perfectly, so somehow it was the installation of 3.1 that did something.

That's very bizarre - it's almost as if you don't have permission to change those files. Have you checked the permissions on the DVD Profiler to see if maybe it's dropped your login?

Edit: I've just thought - if you're sharing this file between 2 PCs - is it possible that the laptop has read only access to the file?

Next update: looks like COLLECTION.DAT is the only file that I cannot copy on the desktop PC. I just took a few other random files from that same directory (Thumbnails.DAT, Actors.DAT, Collection.DBK) and I could copy them all. But if I try COLLECTION.DAT then I get the access error that I don't have access or that the file is in use.
I suspect the latter, but I have no process that looks like it has anything do with DVDP.