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Why not recycle the deleted records instead? IN your routine that adds the file to the queue just do something like this;

SET DELETED OFF
LOCATE FOR DELETED()
IF FOUND
RECALL
SCATTER MEMVAR MEMO BLANK
GATHER MEMVAR MEMO
ELSE
APPEND BLANK
ENDIF
SET DELETED ON
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Because i never thought of it? That is better, it's constantly cleaning up after itself. Thanks.