>>Yes. Looking back thru the entire thread that you and Roxanne were part of that was the only solution. What I hate is that this is the localtablesenvironment that's been hit and I have 47 tables in it! boo hoo.
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>Yikes! That's happened to me. Ever since then I'm careful to keep backups.

it's been a long awhile... but isnt this problem related to some metadata thing being read-only?