>>>No matter what I do, I can't get a small table with 80 odd records in to pack. I can delete the records, but no way will it pack, no matter what SAFETY is set to, or even if used EXCL.
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>>>A timer runs every few minutes, zaps the file, and gets updated data put into it for a grid. Eventually the file is soooo stuffed full of stuff that it takes ages to put new stuff in. It is ridiculous to think of the user having to go and clear it manually.
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>>>Any ideas? Thanks.
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>>a couple stupid questions -- is the table in question listed as an item within the project? Is it tagged as excluded?
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>>(yes, I'm aware that if the file is included in the EXE, trying to DELETE a record should throw an error -- but I'd run into occasions where an error trap masked this)
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>I bet he's zapping/packing a table and looking at another
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>This whole thread makes no sense - at all

I'd seen that sort of thing before -- there was a table in question that didn't seem to change -- turned out that there was a table included in the project with the same filename (but residing in a different folder than the file expected) -- basically within the compiled EXE, the file built into the EXE was referenced instead of the external one..