would give gibberish with cryptor in tho loop, as the copied table is raw data again.

>Yep, I have had the SET TABLEVALIDATE save me a few times before too. What I've done in the past is once I was able to open the table, I copied it to another table then reindexed the new table...delete the 1st table and then rename the 2nd one to the 1st one.
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