I've seen this before when the operator does not have either adequate permissions to create/delete the files that get created/deleted during a pack, or when a diskspace quota imposed by the Network Guys has been exceeded during the process.
>G:\calprod\
>is the current working directory and where the EXE is running.
>
>An error "file does not exist" appears on PACK command below. The file exist when the USE is done, but is missing (deleted from disk) on PACK. When I checked in g:\dbase\, MyTable is really not there. But a TMP file has been created in the g:\calprod\. I understand that PACK create a TMP file and command is not completed until VFP rename the TMP to DBF. My question is:
>WHAT's WRONG WITH THE PACK? WHAT ARE THE REASONS A PACK FAILED?
>
>SELECT A
>USE g:\dbase\MyTable EXCLUSIVE
>DELETE FOR id > 10000
>PACK
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