It's probably missing a few things in the header section of the file. Check out the 'Table file structures' in the VFP help for this.
HTH,
Arriyel
>No I mean I can copy it no problem using "copy to" but when I try to open the database, it say's not a database. I noticed the index is missing also...
>How do you back up the dbc,dcx,dct files?
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>Any ideas?
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