Some things to try and report back on:

Working directory, anything change?
Is working path local or on network?
Is the Project Viewer open?
Clean Paradox desktop?
Does the working folder have a *.JOB file in it?
Change working directory to another folder, same behavior?
Change working directory to an empty folder, same behavior?
Change working directory to another folder on other drive if possible, same
behavior?
Windows indexing on? Anything change?



Robert MacMillan <macfam@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>Hi there.
>
>this is an odd one. My system has been rock solid for years but 
>yesterday opening the query dialogue box has slowed down dramatically. 
>So F10 - F - O - Q brings up the dialogue box. It now takes around 12 
>seconds for the box to become responsive. It appears that Paradox is 
>scanning all the files in the directory rather than being almost instant.
>
>Doing exactly the same thing for Tables or Libraries or anything else is

>as before. Almost instant.
>
>It is as though an index or lookup table has become corrupted.
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>
>Thanks
>
>Robert