>>Does anyone know a straightforward way to rename .DBF files that are included within a DBC and still retain all of the DBC information, like aliases, field captions, rules, etc.?
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>Here're a couple ideas:
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>There's the Rename Table command to change the DBC name.
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>To change the actual filename, you can do a couple ways. The simplest is to change the filename(s) in Explorer, then go directly to the DBC, try to open it, get the Locate message, and then find the table so that the DBC can update itself. Make DBC backup first.
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>Also, you can copy the info to an array using AFIELDS(), then create a new table from it, append, and delete the old one. I can't recall how much info is carried this way, quite a bit, but maybe not all...

Bruce,

Thanks very much for the ideas. I hadn't thought of the first (filename change idea). The second I was trying to avoid. Going to try the first idea now.

Walt