>Hi,
>I have an issue of memo bloat. I'm concerned that if I change the default 64 to 0 it will cause issues with the program. But I have do something soon. Daily the fpt file grows 10 fold - 103000 before and after 10000 bytes - after a pack memo.
>
>So does anyone have a history of making the change?
>
>John

John,

When a new memo is added or an existing is changed the blocks are allocated in 64 byte chuncks, so on average there is a waste of 32 bytes/memo
Changing a memo does not happen 'in place', the whole memo is rewritten, the old apace is not re-used, hence the bloat

setting the block size to 0 will get rid of the 32 bytes waste/memo, so there'll be some gain

What you are experiencing is imo a bloat due to a lot of replaces or delete-insert and setting the block size to zero will not improve much.

As to your concern, all my memo fields have been created with block size 0. I have not had any problems with that

So, it's worth trying. Just don't expect too much of it