>>>>When I pack a file - apart from removing references to deleted records - does the index file get optimised in size - or does it get more and more bloated as time goes by?
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>>>The indexes get recreated during PACK.
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>>>>Is there any way of optimising the size of an index file?
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>>>What do you mean?
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>>Hi Sergey
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>>Well if I were to create the index file from scratch it would be much smaller - Naomi's suggestion
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>I'm not sure you have the problem to begin with. Did you experiment and confirm, that PACK ends up with bigger indexes than DELETE TAG ALL, PACK, re-create?
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>I recall it was a problem in VFP8 before SP. Which VFP version you're running?

Sorry - forgot to say - VFP6