>>You're right! This will be a pig. Creating the indices before appending the million + records will cause VFP to have to update every index as it is adding records. He's done about all he can do with the exception of putting this in the NT scheduler and making it happen automatically.
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>And, a future solution will be to have GBs of RAM...

Hey, ram, disks and processors are cheap. I still remember paying $50 for a meg. I know, don't get me started on the oneupsmanship. Bottom line, "life is good!"