>Hi all
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>I have a strange proble opening a table... and don't know what's appening
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>USE C:\tmp\data\patient.dbf Alias ScrPat
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>This command return "Alias'PATIENT' is not found". I can type this command with any table in the folder, and it work fine.
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>the table Patient.dbf is in the folder, not read-only or hidden, no blank in name

Check the indexes in that table - they may have an alias in them. Just recreate the indexes without the alias. If it's not the indexes, then it may be some DBC event which was written to expect that alias.