Hi Del.

>Okay, I found a good place to trace from. The problem is not happening on validating the free tables themselves, but rather the views of some of the free tables. This doesn't make sense because sqlconfig is located in the same folder as some of the dbc tables, which SDT is not having a problem finding. I'll do some more checking.

The problem is that the path to a table isn't stored with a view. As indicated in the SDT documentation, when you have views on free tables, you need to SET PATH TO the free table directory before bringing up the SDT Database Explorer so VFP (not SDT) can find the tables.

Doug