Some people don't realize that over time orphaned temp files accumulate and need to be periodically deleted. I've seen cases where this hasn't been done for several years, and thousands of temp files have accumulated. In those cases it's rare, but not impossible that VFP might want to create a temp file based on the system time, and end up with a collision with a file that already exists.

The few times I've seen this happen, I ask the client to check their temp files folder, there have always been tons of files there.

>Thank you. Therefore I understand the I don't need to change my code of creating this cursor, in order to make the file name unique.
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>>VFP may not create a physcal dbf at all but when it does, it's in VFP temporary folder with some temp name which suppose to be unique
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>>>If I am creating a temporary cursor as follows:
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>>>CREATE CURSOR CUR_TBLNAME (.. list of columns in the cursor )
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>>>does VFP create this cursor in a TEMP folder as a random name (physical dbf file) or it always going to be the same name?
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>>>The reason I am asking is one customer a few days ago ran into a problem where when creating an index tag for this temp cursor they were getting the message that the .cdx file already existed. Non other customers ever got this problem. I am thinking that it could be because of a glitch with the customer that had a problem. Or maybe I am not creating the cursor with a truly random .dbf file name.