Hi Brenda,

In the general case a .CDX has the same name as the associated table, the suffix (.DBF/,CDX) being the difference.

I assume you have a typo here, the command being "DELETE TAG ALL OF TABLENAME>CDX. Are you sure that the table in question is the selected (active) table? Since you are naming the .CDX file in the command, if the actual selected table is not the same one and has a TAG of the same name as you are trying to create, this error would result.

Good luck,

Jim N

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