>>Deleting the index won't solve your problem. The reason it can't find the long field name is because that field has been renamed to be shorter. If you want to have a table be free at some point, you need to use short field names.
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>You are correct, however the problem I am having is that the DBC got corrupted so I can't USE mytable EXCl and rename the fields to shorter fields names or remove the tags.
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>However, I can FREE the table. But when I USE mytable I get the error. I'm looking for a way to supress this error dialog.
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>Thanks
In order to DELETE TAGS ALL your table should be opened exclusively (therefore it's a paradox :(). Let's try this: copy your table with cdx in backup directory. Delete cdx file from your main directory. Use yourtable exclusive Delete Tags all, etc.
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