>How about if you just shorten the field name so it's only 10 characters?

I'd rather not, but I'll try to see if that makes a difference. I'll keep you updated.

Walter,
>
>Alan
>
>>Well, I really know what is causing it. It is just the index on the field "SCO_parentID". If I delete it, the error is gone. When I reestblish it it is gone until any other error occurs when building the project.
>>
>>Really weird. However, it does not seem to do any harm, so I can live with this for a while. But it is still irritating.
>>
>>I've used the code references utility in VFP8 to search for all occurances, but even when I changed every occurrence into another name, the error still appeared. It really seems to have to do with the index.
>>
>>Walter,
>>
>>
>>>There are project wide search utilities here on the UT. Good luck! I really sympathize with you.
>>>
>>>>Hi mike,
>>>>
>>>>Thanks, but unfortunately no matches. The projectfile itself does not seem to be the problem.
>>>>
>>>>Walter,
>>>>
>>>>>Hi Walter
>>>>>
>>>>>Here's a little program I use when things get weird.
>>>>>
>>>>>To call it, just do this...
>>>>>
>>>>>

USE THE.PJX AGAIN
>>>>>DO SCANIT WITH "SCO_PARENTID"

>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>

***SCANIT.PRG
>>>>>LPARAMETERS m.tcString
>>>>>*Scan all fields in specified table
>>>>>*for passed string
>>>>>IF VARTYPE(m.tcString) # "C"
>>>>> RETURN .F.
>>>>>ENDIF
>>>>>tcString = UPPER(m.tcString)
>>>>>IF FILE("scanit.txt")
>>>>>  ERASE scanit.txt
>>>>>ENDIF
>>>>>LOCAL lnOutput
>>>>>lnOutput = FCREATE("scanit.txt",0)
>>>>>LOCAL llFound, lnI
>>>>>llFound = .F.
>>>>>SCAN
>>>>>  FOR lnI=1 TO FCOUNT()
>>>>>    lcContent = EVALUATE(FIELD(m.lnI))
>>>>>    IF VARTYPE(m.lcContent) $ "CM"
>>>>>      IF m.tcString $ UPPER(m.lcContent)
>>>>>        =FPUTS(m.lnOutput,"Found at :" + STR(RECNO())+","+FIELD(m.lnI))
>>>>>        llFound = .T.
>>>>>      ENDIF
>>>>>    ENDIF
>>>>>  ENDFOR
>>>>>ENDSCAN
>>>>>=FCLOSE(m.lnOutput)
>>>>>IF m.llFound
>>>>>  MODIFY FILE scanit.txt NOWAIT
>>>>>ELSE
>>>>>  LOCAL lcSetSafety
>>>>>  lcSetSafety = SET("SAFETY")
>>>>>  SET SAFETY OFF
>>>>>  ERASE scanit.txt
>>>>>  SET SAFETY &lcSetSafety.
>>>>>  WAIT WINDOW "No Matches"
>>>>>ENDIF

>>>>>
>>>>>>Hi Bill,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>No unfortunately that is not the case. I suspect my project file is corrupted to a minor extend.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Walter,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Heya Walter -
>>>>>>>do you have any #DEFINE set up for 'SCO_PARENTID' or
>>>>>>>is it refererenced any where in a [.h] file ?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>just a swag .
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>when I run into something like this i wanna look at the entire codebase [if possible] - so I'll stop for a moment, run the documenting wizard , and
>>>>>>>study the big ascii output file that has everything in it, to see if there is some thing else using 'SCO_PARENTID' ..
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>once i have the entire codebase in that one file, its rather easy to do a global search .
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>hth - mondo regards [Bill]