>Hi All,
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>In WinFoxPro and Dos FoxPro I had a routine that USED each file in the app, set the 'primary' index, copied it to a tempfile, deleted the original and renamed the tempfile and then reindexed it. This utility was run periodically to unfrag the file and make access by the primary index faster.
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>With DBC's I believe it is not as easy to delete and add tables. I am about to rewrite that routine to copy, zap, append from tempfile, reindex.
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>Has anyone done this or worked out a better to keep our .dbf's reorganized? TIA.
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>Regards,
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>Paige

Paige, this is basically what PACK does internally anyway- is there a reason that you don't want to use it?

As far as recreating the tags, there is nothing special to consider as far as the dbc goes except if you use relationships in the dbc for RI. YOu just have to remember to recreate the relationships as well as the tags after you have killed everything.