>Thanks, Naomi. Bit of a problem - not being on their site.
>
Do you know if this old application has a maintenance section (e.g. Pack, re-index, etc.)?

If it does, then make a backup of data and run this operation. It may very well be that the data are already corrupted.

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>>Start from re-indexing all tables.
>>
>>>A client has been in touch and the only info I have is that they've had an Internal consistency error when trying to run our very old FPD26 app (NOT written by me - but for my sins I have to support it!)
>>>
>>>Of course, Help says to note what you (the programmer) were doing when the error occurred and get in touch with MS support (through what channels, or to what team specifically - no word - typical Help explanation).
>>>
>>>I should point out that they've recently had a licence update, with some minor tweakings to some of the s/w, though it is a great whopping menu-driven system and I don't know whether they were goofing with any of the changed stuff.
>>>
>>>Can anybody shed some light/experience on this elusive error?
>>>
>>>'ppreciate it
>>>
>>>Terry