>John,
>
>This fits in the category of a real wild guess, but you sound like you'd take *anything* at the moment, so here goes. . .
>
>This sounds a lot to me like there are *NO* indexes, thus the slowww performance *and* the large TEMP file creations. Yes, I know you have indexes!
>BUT. . . there have been reports of index files *NOT* opening (ie the PRODUCTION .CDX fails to open) when a .DBF is opened *WITHOUT* reporting any error!!! This in a NT environment, and I *don't* know if it is documented in any way by MS.
>At least one of the reporting persons advised that he seemed to have circumvented the problem by upping the maximum number of files allowable. I (sadly) don't know what was adjusted to to this, only that it was done and the incidence of trouble seemed to disappear.
>
>So I would look at your User machines (or their NT settings, if such things exist) to see what the differences might be from your "test" machine as far as maximum files permissible is concerned.
>
>Wishing you good luck,
>
>Jim N
>

Thank you Jim,

Your post is greatly appreciated, and yes I need lots of luck!!

John.