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>The only thing I know I did to this table was an Alter table to add a new field. I can't remember whether I had the original DBC open or not when I did that. Could this have caused my problem? If not, does this sound like a problem with the table or the DBC and does anyone have any recommendations on how to resolve?


ALTER TABLE rebuilds the table header and the table header contains field information and a pointer back to the database
The DBC also stores field information
so you should keep the database open when doing an alter table but VFP should take care of all this overhead for you without causing any errors.

there is no path info because the database AND tables are in the EXACT SAME directory , correct?
but there should atleast be a ".dbf" filename inside the "property" field of the DBC. In effect, that ".dbf" IS the path info because it is the path FROM the DBC to the TABLE.

Exactly when did you issue an ALTER TABLE command?