Sergey,

Just to make sure that I am communicating clearly.

What you suggested - is what I am trying to do and what my question was about.

My question I guess to rephrase it:

If the client has hundreds of tables in many directories. How do I scan through all of these in a somewhat timely manner programaticly and find where this ridiculous scenario exists.

IF the testabc.dbf did NOT exist THEN I would get an ERROR()
Error message: File 'c:\testdir\testabc.dbf' does not exist.

IF the testdef.dbf does NOT exist -- I do NOT get an ERROR() just a msgbox that the alias does NOT exist
(the one used with the index key)

In your response before are you saying that this error can not be identified and trapped.

I could open each table and then from an array go through each index phrase and look for the wrong alias
I just thougt I would get an error back - which would allow for me to tell the user - this is a bad idea and there is a potential of never being able to open this file etc.

Darrell