My application closed (seemed to do this by itself, but perhaps I hit something) and then wouldn't open. I rebooted, but still got "failed to open" with that dismal sound.
So I tried to fool it by closing Sesame, opening Sesame designer, made a little change in a form and tried to reconcile to existing application, but I got a message: "Failure while reconciling application: C:\sesame\data\reel5-1.db.  Application is already being served."
Re-booting, trying again didn't help.

Thanks, that seemed like great advice, but I couldn't log in.  I entered admin, hello, clicked accept and nothing happened except that the login and password boxes went blank.

Hi Diane...

If for some reason Ray cannot resolve this for you, I still have a copy of reel5-1.db from SANE that I have not modified yet.  Let me know if you need that.

Thanks to Ray, I'm able to move on to many new mistakes and confusions.  Yes, I'm learning slowly as I go along.  My mental state has improved since I decided to consider learning Sesame a fun hobby and not an essential improvement to my business.  Certainly plan to get there some day, meanwhile I'm enjoying the journey.
Diane