It probably is not the index file that is huge, but the remote view itself.
To be able to create an index, VFP has to retrieve the entire remoteview and stores it in your temp directory.

>I have 2 remote views that are both bringing down potentially millions of rows from 2 different database tables. I need to put indexes on these views but when I use the command..
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>INDEX ON remove_view_name index_expression
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>..Windows seems to like to create these huge temporary files in the docsandsetting/username/localsetting/temp folder. I suppose these temporary files are housing the indexes in some way but is there a way to do indexing on "large" remote views that doesn't take up so much disk space?
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>I was also under the impression that these temp files would not be persistent since they are created by a temporary form but they last even after the form is destroyed..am I missing something here?
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>I know its really two questions but thanks for any help.