Hi John,

>>Copy aa.cdx to aa1.cdx with windows explorer since cdx is not encrypted.
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>A cdx can contain a *lot* of the content of indexed fields. It might pay to check out what the cdx looks like using modi file or similar. Anything interesting visible there? ;-)

As long as there is no string info longer than 3 chars in the cdx (which for quite a lot of applications is enough to filter unwanted data ***and*** speeding up access via 100Mb-LAN and especially slower ones compared to full-field-length string index at the price of sligthly redundant non-PK query statements) I also keep the cdx unencrypted. If you really need an index on zip + street + lastname + firstname you can always include the cdx into the encrypted files (as you probably know)

regards

thomas