>>>>I am getting index does not match the file - is there any easy way of finding our which file that is - it is a very large system with masses of files
>>>>
>>>>Thanks
>>>>
>>>>Colin
>>>
>>>No easy way, other than opening the tables one by one. If all the tables are in the same folder, you can easily create a program to do this with Sys(2000) in a loop.
>>>
>>>If the system had a proper error handler, it would have shown you which table it was, since this error will appear on the line where you open the tabl
>>
>>Any chance you could give me a quick program checking all files in j:\global
>
>This simple program will give an error message if opening a table fails, and if you don't have an error handler active. Nothing advanced, I wrote this program in a few minutes to comply with your wish.
>
>

lparameters tcDir , tcSkeleton
>if empty(tcDir)
>   tcDir = 'data'
>endif
>if empty(tcSkeleton)
>   tcSkeleton = '*.dbf'
>Endif
>tcSkeleton = forcepath(tcSkeleton,tcDir)
>llFirst = .T.
>clear
>do while .t.
>   if llFirst
>      lcFile = sys(2000, tcSkeleton)
>      llFirst = .F.
>   else
>      lcFile = sys(2000, tcSkeleton, 1)
>   endif   
>   if !empty(lcFIle)
>      lcFile = forcepath(lcFile, tcDir)
>      use (lcFile)
>      ?lcFile
>   else
>      exit
>   Endif
>Enddo

>
>Please note that I am not sure that an index corruption will always raise an error.

Thanks but I get unrecognised command verb on the line lparameters tcDir, tcSkeleton