>Thanks for the tip ...
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>I tried Jonh and George's way, but it doesn't work... I think the dbc's path has been saved along with the form, so it get compliled into the exe as well... Actually, I am running you guy's suggestion under the test emvironment(not the exe file) but the form still poiting to the live data. I will try Donald's method, it sound's alright ... though i still think there must be an easier way than that ...
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Hi To,

What's your path statement look like. FoxPro may be searching it. If you open the database using OPEN DATABASE DBF\APPS.DBC, and the file exists in the DBF\ child directory, it shouldn't fail unless the database doesn't exist. You can then simply open the tables by refering to their aliases.

If the problem is occuring in opening the individual tables, You might try using a similar syntax in opening them.

hth,