I have a theory, but I am not absolutely sure about it. Anyway, here it goes: When you run a query against a DBF, VFP remebers which table you selected from, and may even keep it open, depending on what kind of query you run. So the next time you run a query, although you specify another path, VFP uses the table which is already open. Solution: Close the old dbf, issue Close database all, or make sure to specify the whole path.

>I am having a "blind" moment:
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>On my local development pc I have a folder C:\MYDATA\DBFS
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>I am running a query which utilises tables from this folder e.g. invent.dbf
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>I am setting the search path as follows:
>SET PATH TO C:\MYDATA\DBFS\
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>When I run the query and inspect the debugger, I can see the path is set correctly to C:\MYDATA\DBFS and the dbf() returns C:\mydata\dbfs\invent.dbf
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>I now set
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>SET PATH TO S:\MYDATA\DBFS\
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>to run the query against a server data set.
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>Now when I inspect the debugger I can again see the path is correctly changed to S:\MYDATA\DBFS\, but the dbf() still returns C:\mydata\dbfs\invent.dbf instead of what I was intending i.e. S:\mydata\dbfs\invent.dbf.
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>Why is the dbf on the S path not being picked up?
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>Barry Sutton