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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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SNIP

Fabio,

Please check out Re: .FPT files - bloat and re-writing of file header Thread #971406 Message #972068

It says, as I read it, that memo field is always re-written.

cheers