>I have some enormous files (300 to 700 meg) I manually bring into VFP. I copy an empty dbf and use the import wizard to import this data. They take about 1 hour to hour and half and are SDF. Is there a faster way to bring them in? I mean I would like these to import much quicker and am open to changing the format that fox is presented with. Any Ideas?
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>We use these for queries, and play lots of (pull my hair out), what if games with them.
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>Tom

In addition to Chris's suggestion about the indexes, make sure you have exclusive use of the DBF.