>I have 2 separate clients (both on Novell 4.? networks) who are experiencing the problem of index corruption - the specific error is "Index does not match table...".
>
>When I look at the cdx file it is 16 bytes exactly. This is unusual
>in that it has happened several times to 2 separate clients and each time the corrupted cdx file is 16 bytes.
>
>Has anyone ever heard of this? If you can offer any help or ideas I'd appreciate it!
>
>jean
>jce@cts.com

Jean,

Sounds like the file server or the client software is truncating the CDX to just the header record. I just tried and an empty CDX is 3K, so whatever is truncating it is not doing it in any sensible way.

I have heard of problem with Novell client software in certain version that corrupt files. The recommendation was always either upgrade teh Novell client software or use the Win95 client software.