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>>>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.
The number of times I've had issues with CDX files going bad can be counted on one hand. In fact, my experience is that almost all corruption of tables or indexes boils down to failure to have a UPS or network trouble.
Tamar
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