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>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.

Craig,

It would be useful to verify that the above is still true (listening, MS???).

I say this because the change that speeded up the reindex in the first place could also have taken all of the TAG info in at once and then used them from there. That could eliminate *voth* points above.

Sure would be nice to know if this is what was done.

Cheers,

JimN