Subject Re: Converting VFP to Dbase or importing into VFP into dbase From Omar Mohammed <omar@nospam-progmatix.biz> Date Mon, 13 Oct 2014 14:41:06 -0400 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started On 13-Oct-14 10:35 AM, Mike wrote: > I am stuck and did not find an answer via the FAQ or google. > I have 100's of VFP tables (.dbf) and would like to convert them to a dbase file type. Most all have indexes but I dont mind rebuilding those in dbase.  In the Dbase command window I used: Use? and opened the vfp table and got a database engine error. Corrupt table/Index header. > Next I open the table in VFP and got rid of the indexes and attempted to reopen in dbase same error. > I reopened my file in VFP and did a export to type dbase IV same error when opening in dbase. > I then tried several copy structure to commands and dbase is throwing the same error. > I was looking at a dbase program using VFP files but that wont work using the BDE so I want to evaluate converting then to dbase and rewriting our programs. > Thank you > Mike > I did this some years ago. IIRC, I created an ODBC connection for VFP and used that to get the fields and copy to dbase Try that. If you're having problems let me know and I'll look for the stuff I did