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>This phantom is around since 2.0 or so - most of the time you can index a cursor any way you like, but sometimes you just can't.
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>The way around is to use a nondefault name for the .cdx file:
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cCdx=[ your favorite temp file name generator here]
>Index on cThis+cThat tag Name1 <b>of (cCdx)</b>

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>And that's it. The index will get deleted when the cursor is closed, at least now that I tried (in VFP7) - I seem to recall this was a problem in some previous versions.

Related to what you're saying, I have a theory about why this is happening. (I may be way off base here...) When you create an index on a cursor, it is actually creating a temporary file in your work directory with a unique name assigned by VFP. If you are working on a large application that uses alot of indexed cursors, and the work directory starts to get cluttered with files that never got cleared out because of crashes and what have you, I could see this problem happening on an intermittent basis. It's best to define a tmpfiles directory and make sure it's clean every once in a while.