>>>John,
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>>>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
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>>This is not true, if LEN(memo) it doesn't overcome CEILING(LEN(memo)/BLOCKSIZE)*BLOCKSIZE
>>blocksize it rewritten the memo in place.
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>I was under the impression that it was always rewritten. Is this recent or has it always been like that ?

VFP8,9 certainly, first it is probable


>Then John's setting of 64 is better than 0 if there are a lot of replaces done

sure, set to 0 is good when you fill the memo and don't replace it.

In all the other cases it depends if the replaces become longer or no.