When you are copying the tables from the host computer to the client machine, are you using APPEND FROM or COPY TO? If you are copying the files (COPY TO), you will surely encounter problems, since the path to the .DBC are hard coded in the tables.

Can you tell me why you are keeping a second copy of the database on the client machine?

>The application I am working with does not modify the table structure of the database. I will look for anything like that, but it shouldn't. We do create cursors independently of the database definition, but they are only temporary.
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>When I say I copy the database, what I mean is that I copy background data from the tables on the host computer to the client machine. This is all done at start up. A duplicate copy of the dbc, dct, and dcx file sits on the client machine. We have toyed with copying those at start up too. Do you think that is a good idea?