>Hi all,
>
>I needed to bring my current project (VFP 5.0) into the office to show my boss. I zipped up all of the files in my development directory at home, made them a self extracting zip and emailed them into the office.
>
>I extracted the files and put them in a directory (I'm 99% sure I've got the directory name correct ...hey it's Friday and I'm really tired ;)...). When I try to open my project I'm getting "Project file is invalid" message.
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>I then tried to open my database which worked, but when I tried to open any of my tables I'm getting "the database for xxx.dbf could not be opened. Would you like to locate the owning database...".
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>I also opened my .dbc file and noticed there is no header file which I believe I just read, each .dbc should have. Maybe I'm drawing at straws here.
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>Any ideas out there what might have gone wrong and how I can fix it?? (my boss is waiting... ;)....)
>
>MTIA!!!
>
>Mandy "I can't wait for the weekend!"

try --

    open database mydb exclusive
    validate database recover

each DBC should have a .DBC, .DCX and .DCT file.