>Is there a way to move data tables from one DBC to another, aleady-exisiting database without first freeing it (which I assume will lose all DBC-specific stuff like captions and long field names)? Long ago, I dumbly put one of application's tables into three different databases (each in a different folder) and would like to consolidate them. I've no problem hacking the database files if needed, but am not sure of everything I should look out for.

If one of your existing tables is the right one, why not just append from the other two and then drop these two?

Alternately, take the GenDbc created code for one good table, create a new table where you want it to be, using that code, and then append from the three old ones.