>Hi All
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>I find that I have to do constant maintenance of FPT files by PACKING. Is there a way to prevent zip file bloat by zipping and unzipping memo field contents on the fly?
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>Your advice much appreciated. Thanks
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>Best Regards
Zipping and unzipping would not completely solve the memo bloat problem - data will still have to be re-written to the memo file.
You might consider, as an alternative, having a bunch of files. Your main table would just have the filename.
Any of these options would be too complicated for my taste - I would just do the regular maintenance (pack the tables).
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