>>Hi Doug,
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>Can you think of a reason that Pack/Reindex did not work and recreate the index tags on my table at the client site when the indexes mysteriously disappeared? They got a message that the Primary key was invalid (there wasn't one anymore), and I had to download their data and used APPEND to append their data to a new empty table in order to restore these indices. Then I had to VALIDATE DATABASE RECOVER. Was there another method I'm missing?
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>Sandi.

Are all the indexes getting dropped, or just the PK? I have had instances where a PK got corrupted, and I had to manually edit the table and enter valid PKs for the corrupted records. Then SDT was able to recreate the PK using the SDT Meta Data. I was able to do this because I also include a runtime command window style editing form in my apps. It only becomes available on the menu if I log in to the app using a master user ID and password.

If this corruption is occurring often, there is probably a network or connection problem.