Personally, I don't use free tables, but here's a wild ass guess--do you have your free tables added to a project _as_ free tables?

>Has anyone else noticed this behavior in VFP 5?
>If you create a local view, either programatically with create sql view or with the view designer, which is intended to send updates to a free table, the view loses it's association to the free table it is intended to update unless that free table is in the current directory or in the same directory as the dbc that holds the view. Even though the table intended to be updated and its full path is explicitly defined for the view (both in the view definition and)
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