>>Last month I noted that a system that has been running without a hiccup since 2001 had a corrupted index that had the effect of making a report view OK but print incorrectly.
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>>I reindexed and packed the table last month and all was OK
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>>Same call today (this is a monthly process).
>>This time reindexing and packing didn't work.
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>>I brought the data to my system and failed the same way the user failed.
>>I reindexed and packed and all was OK on my system.
>>Hmmm
>>After several futile retries at the client, I sent my corrected .dbf and .cdx to the client and all is OK.
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>>Que pasa?
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>If the reindex was done with the command reindex, then I would recommand to recreate the index. I never used that command. It is always recommended to build the index from scratch. This will guarantee a clean indexing, which might eliminate the chances of some failures related to the reindex command.
Thanks, Michel.
The reindexing routine deletes all tags and starts from scratch at the user and at my site, so that wasn't the issue
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