Darrell,

I don't think the error is trapabable in VFP8 or earlier but I'm pretty sure it's trapable in VFP9.

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>Just to make sure that I am communicating clearly.
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>What you suggested - is what I am trying to do and what my question was about.
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>My question I guess to rephrase it:
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>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.
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>IF the testabc.dbf did NOT exist THEN I would get an ERROR()
> Error message: File 'c:\testdir\testabc.dbf' does not exist.
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>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)
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>In your response before are you saying that this error can not be identified and trapped.
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>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.
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