>In Barbara's case, this (or an equivalent) of this may not be the case, if it happens so random. Having all the available handles used up should prevent it from opening any file beyond that point; maybe the server is creating new handle space on the fly, but not quick enough to open the .cdx, yet sufficiently quick to open the next .dbf?
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>Barbara, we seem to have lots of maybies here.

Sure do, Dragan - I used Michel's new "View Entire Thread" to print them out and discuss with the Network guru. Today (Sunday) he's installing a new hub and moving our entire program to another server. Monday he'll be installing a print server to take some of the pressure off the present server (we print about 15,000 pages per day, and the print queues get AWFULLY busy). Next step - new network cards, starting with the oldest computers, but they REALLY don't want to do that.

Barbara