>>>>Thread on the topic: Reindex making DBC grow... Thread #886832 Message #886832
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>>>>Re: REINDEX - Without EXCLUSIVE. Thread #841224 Message #841605
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>>>I think your original answer to recreate is probably the best way
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>>>I have just done a disp status to a text file - I can now cut and paste that into a program and be 100% sure of creating the correct indices
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>>>Thanks for all your help
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>>See Question about the REINDEX command Thread #1003134 Message #1003134 that confirms Sergey's comment.
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>Interesting though
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>My database has 293,000 records with 54 indexes - original size of cdx file 176,084 kb following a pack and reindex

54 indexes seems like an awful lot. Remember the fewer indexes, the faster it will reindex and the smaller the index file.

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>I ran a disp status to a text ile - imported the text file into a dbf - wrote a program to delete the index file and rebuild based on my database
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>Resultant size of cdx file exactly the same - but I ha to prove it to mysel!!
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>Is Sergey ever wrong?????