Very good points. Thank you Alan. However, I noticed that it is a relative path in respect to the dbc location. I will have to do some testing...

>Tracy, for what it's worth, I think Yuri's original suggestion

?FILE(DBGETPROP(table_name,"TABLE","PATH"))

is a better way to go given your original criterion that the table is in the dbc and could be opened with dbprofiler!mytable. Your code below assumes that the table is necessarily in the same directory as the dbc, while Yuri's code is more generic since it makes no prior assumptions about where the table must be located.
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>Your code will return .F. even if the table does exist on disk as long as it is in a different diretory than the dbc.
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>>I guess this would work too:
>>
>>

>>IF DBUSED('dbProfiler')
>>   SET DATABASE to dbprofiler
>>   IF !FILE(LEFT(DBC(),RAT("\",DBC()))+"MYTABLE.DBF")
>>      *--Do whatever
>>   ELSE
>>

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>>then I don't need to know where it is physically located or set the path but only ensure the dbc is open (which is done earlier in the app)