> > > > >PACK is not a good idea, we know this. I learned it early on when my > application ran out of disk space during a PACK and lost the original and > the copy tables - not a happy experience. xcuuse me? I pack every day. Admittedly my tables (tens of Mb) are relatively small compares to the disk ( Gbs). > > Who runs out of diskspace now a days? Exactly. Diskdrive manufactures must make a living too. > sound scary though. Would having the fox temp files stored/created on a > local drive with suffucient diskspace eleviate this potential problem? The > question also is who much diskspace is enough for Fox temp files during a > PACK? 1/2x or 1/3x the size of the DBF? In the days of the IBM S34, the rule of thumb, (in those days they had rules of thumb) was to have at least the space of your biggest file free on your disk. And we thought this was a sales pitch. Marc