>>>>>>Has anyone heard of a fault like this before?
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>>>Check the privileges on all your tables and indexes. We had a major support headache that turned into a cdx somehow losing privileges when copied between servers by the customer. Everything worked fine when logged in as admin/owner, otherwise index error.
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>>The answer is dont use c:\ for string tables use c:\anythingelse and you are ok
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>>We have had this problem on 2 different system on 2 machines and we have solvrd them both
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>sorry i meant storing tables

Yep... putting data files in the root folder is a definite no-no.