>You could go back to the old ways and use stand alone idx/ndx files. SET INDEX TO would close all an Alias's indexes, then SET INDEX to the ones you want.
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>If you're adding new records - you have to write the index. For pre-existing records you may be able to 'normalize' it out, but that is difficult.

Yes, as I mentioned, it's not that I want to workaround that but to mostly request a wish to MS VFP team to enhance the respond time when we do such an action.