>>>PS - I miss the days of .IDX files. So much simpler. :-)
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>>Hope the smiley means you're really joking. I will never miss IDX files; keeping them in sync was a hassle, especially in inherited code. The introduction of the CDX was a huge step forward.
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>>Tamar
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>Nope, not joking. :-)
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>To my recollection, we never had any issues with .IDX files except overt truncation to 0 bytes when a system crashed (back then, haven't seen this recently). Today, we have lots of issues with .CDX files, and continue to do so in various multi-user environments.
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>In my experience, .CDX indexes in VFP are a weak area for multi-user access.

I never had any problems with cdx files


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