Right - the full path IS the only relative path to a different drive. I guess you can say at that point that it's not relative at all...

Thanks for the clarification. I'll be more careful.

>FYI, the relative path is stored in the DBC as long as the tables and DBC are on the same volume/drive. The hard path is stored if they are on separate drives.
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>>What Mark says is true, assuming the tables and the database are in the same directory. The DBC just stores the RELATIVE path to the tables.
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>>If you have them in different directories, consider putting them together.
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>>Hint: if you close the database, and then open it as if it were a table, you can see the info it really has in it: USE database.DBC IN 0 SHARED
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>*snip*