tnx naoto - good thought - I will look into that issue.
k


>>I am having an issue that has just suddenly surfaced
>>in programming when line reads
>>

>>Delete for namet = "XNAME"
>>pack
>>

>>
>>instead of deleting the records selected - VFP deletes the whole file.
>>
>>What's going on here?????? Halp!!!!
>>
>>k
>
>You could be running afoul of an antivirus/antispyware with the PACK.
>If I'm not mistaken, PACK does the following:
>1. Copy all records in original table that aren't tagged for deletion to new temporary file
>2. Close both the original and new temporary file
>3. Erase the original DBF file.
>4. Rename the temporary file created in step 1 to original filename
>5. Open the newly-created file.
>
>There is a chance that an antivirus will stop you between one or more of these steps -- in that case the program tends to error out (unless you happen to have an error trap in effect that would ignore errors and silently cause a failure). Sometimes you'll luck out and you'll still find the temporary file (often with gibberish-looking filename) that you can rename back to the original filename..