>>There are two problems:
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>>- CDX bloat. If you simply REINDEX, the new tags will be appended to the end of the CDX file. You need to DELETE TAG to remove the space, but then, REINDEX won't work.
>>- REINDEX relies on the tag information stored in the header of the CDX. If this is corrupted, the index will be too or VFP won't be able to read the information. In this case you may have to delete the CDX to build the indeces.
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>Thanks, I wasn't aware of the bloat issue. When corruption occurs, I replace the CDX with an empty one (stored in my DBC's User field) then issue reindex. This has corrected every corruption that I've run into.


That's a great idea.