Sorry for not giving much info. Do not know the fine points of VFP tables and indexes. No, they are independant tables. Can a table and its CDX becomes disassociated (saw this in help)? How do they become disassociated? How can you tell what is the associated compound index for a table?

Brenda

>Is the table part of a database? If so, maybe it's counting the deleted DBC record that contains tag info.

>>Do a DELETE TAG OF ALL TABLENAME.CDX, which gives no error messages. Then "INDEX ON cname TAG cname" which says the index already exists. I do not understand this. Can anyone shed some light on this?
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