Also Jon if you can see the indexes going through the table also look at

SET ODOMETER TO [nRecords]

try settinr it for 100 so you screen only gets updated every 100 records and your pc can focus on the job at hand


>Stephen,
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>Thanks for the tip but I don't think this is the issue. The foreground and background buffer sizes are 358,875,136 and 89,915,392 respectively. That seems like more than enough as far as I'm concerned. And, like I said in the little command window utility I wrote I didn't do a thing with SYS(3050) and it reindexes like a charm.
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>Any other ideas??
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>Jon
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>
>>Hello Jon
>>
>>I would look at SYS(3050)
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>>it's a memory buffer size, 90% of the time the smaller the memory buffer the faster things move
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>>
>>>I'm having a weird problem with VFP7 on one particular machine and was curious if there's a way to remedy it without having to reinstall:
>>>
>>>When attempting to reindex tables from within VFP the process is either going VERY slowly or not running at all - it takes up some CPU time in the task manager. If I try the exact same operation in a little command window utility I wrote, I see all the keys get regenerated and the indexing is done within seconds.
>>>
>>>Would anyone know what setting needs to be tweaked in order to get this working properly from within VFP's IDE?
>>>
>>>Laterness,
>>>Jon