>Here's a simple program I'm using in cases like this. Don't forget to remove space after << and before >>.

Thanks, Sergey. I was thinking along these lines, though this program should be a little bit complicated to deal with PRIMARY(), CANDIDATE(), DESCENDING() possible clauses. Anyway, perhaps, the main reason of slowness is all validations, which I have in this file. I don't know, how to disable them and perhaps I need to fire them while appending...

>PARAMETERS pcAlias, pcPrgName
>SET TALK OFF
>*-* Indexes
>cPrgName = IIF(EMPTY(pcPrgName), "zRecrInd", pcPrgName)
>cPrgName = IIF("." $ cPrgName , cPrgName , cPrgName + ".prg")
>SELECT (pcAlias)	
>
>* Process all indexes
>SET TEXT ON
>SET TEXT TO (cPrgName)
>
>\SET TALK OFF
>\* DBF=<< DBF() >>
>\SET TALK NOWIND
>\SET TALK ON
>\
>\? "Indexing:", DBF()
>\?
>
>
>FOR i = 1 TO TAGCOUNT()
>	m.Tag = TAG(I)
>	m.Key = KEY(i)
>	m.For = For(i)
>	
>	\? "Index << i >> << m.tag >> "  +  TIME()
>	IF EMPTY(m.For)
>		\INDEX ON << m.Key >> TAG << m.Tag >>
>	ELSE	
>		\INDEX ON << m.Key >> TAG << m.Tag >> FOR << m.For >>
>	ENDIF	
>
>ENDFOR
>
>SET TEXT TO
>SET TEXT OFF
>
>RETURN

>>Hi everybody,
>>
>>I have a file with lots of indexes. I have to append couple of files into this file. I'm using APPEND FROM command to append. This operation is very slow due to the indexes. Is there a simple way of "disabling" indexes for a moment?
>>
>>I'm thinking about renaming cdx temporary, do append operation, rename it back and do reindex. But it sounds like klugy approach, besides, file will give an error in attempt to open it.
>>
>>Can you suggest something here? It's for VFP6.0.
>>
>>Thanks in advance.