>I think it's better to do maintenance more regularly, say, once a week. In our case we have a different application based on SDT, which we can run on demand ourselves to update structure, copy database, reindex, repair.
That's OK; once a week or once a year, it doesn't matter much. Tore's point is more or less:
Some programmers, perhaps because they are new to FoxPro / Visual FoxPro, think that they have to PACK every time they delete a record. This is not the correct design.
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