You can't because deleted records are still in the table until you issue a pack. The solution is not to reuse primary keys. This is must simpler anyway.

>When designing a table I create a primary key. Afterwards I design a form to input data to the table indexed by the primary key. When adding a record to the table and deleting it; I cannot reuse the same key because VFP´s error handling engine submits the message "unique key violation". My DELETED setting is ON. Why does this happen and how can I work around the problem.
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