Do you customarily PACK right after deleting records? This is usually best done separately, in a monthly maintenance.
>Hi,
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>I've been running a method contained in a formset for many years without issue - until today.
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>select kwik
>set filter to
>delete for mvenue=q_venue and mrn=q_race_no
>pack
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>In the above code, the third line (delete for mvenue=q_venue and mrn=q_race_no) totally closes the work area occupied by this table and totally erases the file kwik.dbf. I rebooted the computer and it seems to be working now, but I am concerned as to the reason, because this is part of a system installed on many user's computers.
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>About a month ago, I switched from Windows XP to Windows 7. Not sure if that might be an issue.
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>Any feedback would be welcome.
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>Regards'John
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