You do not need to set the path. This also should work:
open database c:\.....\.....\databasename

In any case the information about the table path should be stored in the database. Sometimes the table name is stored without it, which (probably) means that the table supposed to be in the DBC file directory.

You also could do something like this:

use dbc_file.dbc
browse && to see all the properties for the object you wish


>Great! Thank you. Of course for this to work we would have to set the path to the location where the database is located.
>
>>Something like this:
>>
>>open database ...
>>?FILE(DBGETPROP(table_name,"TABLE","PATH"))
>>
>>>If I have a database: dbWorkFiles
>>>
>>>and I want to determine if one of its tables physically exist I would typically store a common path to the data directory to a variable like 'ddir' and then do:
>>>
>>>IF FILE (ddir+'mytable.dbf')
>>>
>>>However, if I do not know exactly where the tables are located - lets say I open them with:
>>>
>>>use dbWorkFiles!mytable
>>>
>>>then how can I check to see if the table exists or not if I do not know where they are located? Is that possible? It could be a part of the database but not physically exist...