Hi Evelyn.

>I have encountered a situation a few times that VFP could not open my database,
>complaining about a bad index. I have SDT and it could not do it either. Not knowing
>yet the whole functionality of SDT at this point, can you tell me if there is in SDT a quicker
>and better solution if I encounter the error again? By the way, in all cases that it happened,
>I was able to restore my database but not the best way, I think.

If the error occurs when you open the database (ie. on the OPEN DATABASE command), the DBC index (contained in the DCX file) might be hosed. To fix it, open the database exclusively and use the VALIDATE DATABASE RECOVER command. If the error occurs when you open a table, use SDT's Reindex method (see the documentation for details) to repair the index. You must have first created a set of SDT meta data to be able to use the Reindex method.

Doug