>>>>>>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
>
>I don't. Which version of VFP do you use?

I was trying to specify the directory this caused the error - my files are in j:\global how do I specify this in the code