Terry,

I wonder why REINDEX won't work for you here?... It's a question of the index content, not the index definitions (at least as I read it).

Certainly worth a try before resorting to other suggestions!

Also, what version/SP are you running - VFP8SP1 had at least 3 fixes for this error message.

good luck

>You know that old chestnut "...index does not match the table. Delete the index file and re-create the index"
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>Well, the tables in question have a whole shed-load of (sometimes compound) indexes. Is there a way of preserving their definitions so that I don't have to go into the table builder and manually and laboriously create the indexes all over from scratch? - Especially if this should happen more than once, and to several tables, as has just happened to me!
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>Your humble servant
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>Terry
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