IIRC, it wasn't my idea but I'm glad it worked for you. :)

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>you must be a walking knowledge base :-)
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>I followed your suggestion to alter the (FPW26) table first (in VFP9) before adding it into a container and the dialog is indeed not shown. I wouldn't have come up with this sequence change. Thanks!
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>Regards,
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>Ron
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>>>I want to move a number of dbf's into a VFP container. Having created the container I use the 'ADD TABLE' command to do this. Everytime this happens I get a dialog containing text like: 'File will be updated to the file format...etc' with a yes and no button.
>>>I'm moving 30 tables like this I would very much like to avoid this dialog. Is there anyway to surpress it. I have tried 'set safety' but this does not work when adding tables into container.
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>>Hi Ron,
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>>AFAIK, there's no simple way to avoid the dialog. Check Re: Programmatically convert tables from 2.6 format Thread #897229 and Re: Adding 2.x tables to a DBC. Thread #950778 for related discussions

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