Hi John,

Well, I corrected the problem but can only guess at the reason why the problem occurred. On a whim, I decided to delete the IDX's and then recreate them in FP2.5 DOS. Now when I USE the free table and the IDX's they come up as Regular. Thanx for the input.

>Hi Colin ---
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>>I am USEing a free table and its IDX's, built back in the FoxPro 1.02 days, in a VFP app. The trouble I'm encountering is that VFP is setting some of the IDXs type to Candidate instead of Regular. How can I prevent this to ensure that the IDX's are opened as Regular? TIA
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>I have not worked with FP 1 tables in VFP, but is it trying to convert IDX files to CDX tags? If so, are these UNIQUE indexes? Standalone indexes cannot be anything but regular or unique; they cannot be Candidates.