>For an installed system on a client's PC, I need to change the DBC. I changed a local view. Can I just copy the new DBC & DCT and the data tables will be o.k.? Or do I have to backup the data and then append it back to blank tables?
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>TIA

Jane,

The safest way to do this is to use GenDBC.prg that comes with VFP. It is located in VFP98\Tools\Gendbc.

Opne your database and run the gendbc.prg. Edit the prg it generates and take out everything excpet the code that creates the new view then save the prg. Take that prg and run it on your client's machine to create the new view.