Running a report without indexes

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at spamcop.net>

> I understand what you are saying. But, you also keep asking if there's
> a
> way to have filePro ignore indexes. The answer is no. Either it needs
> the
> indexes, because it's using them, or it's already not using them. (If
> you
> get my meaning.)
> 
> There are very few places where an "invalid index" can be generated,
> and the
> only one that should ever be even possible in the scenario you
> describe
> (read-only mode, no lookups) would be if filePro couldn't read the
> index
> header when the file is first opened, or the "magic number" wasn't
> valid.
> And, short of transient network errors (assuming the files are stored
> on a
> network share), neither of those make sense for such an intermittent
> problem.

I hate to point this out, fearless leader, but those two paragraphs 
contradict one another.

You first say that if "it's already not using" the indexes, then it ignores
them. 

But then you at least strongly imply that *it always opens index files 
which exist, and reads their headers*, *even if it's not going to use 
them*.

That means that there *are* some ways in which an index which is not
going to be used can still throw an error, which is what the OP is
complaining about, does it not?

Cheers,
-- jra
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