"Michael R. Wanzong" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: <snip> > What I would like to do is drop the dbefiles w/o Allbase caring if > they actually exist or not. When I attempt to do this now I get the > error 'Missing DBE File'. > > Does anyone know of a way to do this? Restoring the original files, > then dropping them is out of the question in this case. SQLUTIL's DETACHFILE might do what you want. -- Evan