"Michael R. Wanzong" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
 
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>     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