>>>Dear John,
>>>
>>> I still cannot manage to PACK that table. I already removed all the triggers and indexes. But the message is still showing at the same record number. Any other possibilities, please?
>>>
>>>With Thanks,
>>>Mya
>>

>>Use yourtable excl
>>copy to temp
>>zap
>>append from temp

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>Which works for free tables - I think it wouldn't keep the long field names, if any.
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>Short of adding a temp table to the current database (or to a temp database - which is even more work), this may work as well and also keep the long field names:
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>

use yourtable excl
>select * from yourtable into cursor temp nofilter
>select yourtable
>zap
>append from (dbf("temp"))

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>I don't really remember whether there's anything in VFP6 that would prevent this from working. Just in case, before zapping the table, have a backup and check what's in the temp cursor, specially on the suspected record.
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>Of course, if there are no fieldnames longer than 10 characters, this doesn't matter.

The reason why I chose a "real" table, and not a cursor, was that a "real" table will not disappear if you have a crash during the process. And I believe that you can use my procedure also for tables with long field names, because all tables with a long field name does not really contain long field names. The long field names are stored in the DBC and AFAIK you can address a long field name by the long field name, or a short field name, just like you can with long and short file names. And, BTW, I never use long field names...!