Un qualify files

Kenneth Brody kenbrody at bestweb.net
Tue Aug 24 08:16:57 PDT 2004


GCC Consulting wrote:
> 
> Back to a filePro question.
> 
> One of my clients is moving into a one man office.  Currently his app is
> qualified.
> 
> I realize I can write processing to post all of his data from the qualifier to
> the non qualified key.
> 
> However, and I haven't tested this, can I delete key and the rename keyqual to
> key? Then rebuild the indexes.
> 
> Has anyone done this?

Assuming that everything is in the single qualifier, and you don't use
that qualifier name explicitly anywhere (ie: a lookup to "filename at qual")
then there should be no problems simply renaming "keyqual" to "key", and
"indexqual.?" to "index.?".

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