>>>> How do you delete a tag from a table if the CDX is missing?
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>>Marcus,
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>>If there is no cdx there is no tag to delete.
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>Thanks for your help. Is there a way to unassociate a table with its CDX file? It looks to me that I should just handle error 1707 when the CDX has been deleted. Thanks again.
>Marcus.
Robin here -- I don't reccommend doing this, but the direct answer on disassociating a CDX is a two step process: remove ( i.e. set to 0 ) the low order bit in byte 28 of the DBF header ( assuming free table ) and erase the CDX file itself. Again, I don't recommend doing this, but that is how VFP keeps track of the presence / absence of integral CDX's. Error 1707 simply tells you that the integral CDX ( low order bit of byte 28 of the DBF header is a 1 ) but that the CDX file is missing. In the development environment, I just reply 'Ignore' to the VFP message 'Missing CDX', and voila, VFP turns off the low order bit of byte 28 of the DBF header and I don't see the message again.