Jos,

You can use TRY...ENDTRY (VFP9) or local error hanler to ignore the error and open the table w/o CDX. See Re: Erasing cdx and recreating indexes within a program Message #461844

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>How do you open a DBF file if the CDX file is missing? From the IDE it works but from inside an exe app it generates an error. How to avoid the error?
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>Thanks