Peter,
Firstly, does the size make sense to you? That is, do you feel you have that many *live* records that the space used makes sense?

You see, *IF* you have lots of deleted records in the tables *OR* *IF* you use memo fields in the tables which are updated frequently, then possibly a simple PACK will do the trick.

Finally, today disk space is CHEAP. Like, REAL CHEAP. Your users may not be aware that they could solve this, plus probably other problems they encounter regarding space, for very few dollars these days.

Good Luck,
Jim N.
>My Manufacturing Process Modeling database (VFP3.0) uses hundreds of megabytes of disk space and my clients wish it didn't.
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>I noticed that my pkzip utility can reduce the size of a DBF by up to 90%. Can I infer that the DBF format is inherently inefficient with data storage ?
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>Any possible solutions to reducing disk space use in VFP.