>dear friends,
>
> Recently We have converted our application from visual foxpro 6 to visual foxpro 9 ( sp1 ). When we run validate database command in vfp 9 we get database container is invalid ( file series.dbf) cannot open table.
>and when we run the same from vfp 6 it works.
>
> again if i open the table in vfp 6 and do pack on the same then it starts working in vfp 9 again.
>
>Regards.
>
>Bhavesh

this is a SET TABLEVALIDATE violation.

With SET TABLEVALIDATE TO 0 you can open it.

pack all the databases.