>>>I have a table that periodically needs a PACK MEMO on it to keep the FPT file from growing too large. Once packed, the size of the FPT shrinks from near the 2 GB limit to some few hundred MB in size.
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>>>I let it go too long so today I have Error 41's trying to get it open to perform a pack. Any ideas on how to do that?
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>>You should look into why memo is growing so fast. Most likely it's result of to many updates on memo fields. Every time a memo field is updated, it's copied entirely to the end of FTP file (unless table is open exclusively).
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>Sergey,
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>do I understand that a memo file will overwrite old deleted code with new code if it is opened exclusive??
>Regards,
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It'll if it fits into the already allocated space otherwise it'll relocated to the end of the file.