>Can someone tell what the DCT file contains and why it perhaps growed on my test system from around 300K to 14MB?
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>Thanks
>Kev

Kev,

A VFP dtabase container is comprised of three files a DBC, DCT, and DCX. The DBC is a VFP table with the rcords of the databse, the DCT is a memo file that holds many of the settings of the database, and the DCX is an index file (like a CDX). Thhe DCT grows becuase every time you make changes to your database settings the memos are updated and VFP updates memos by marking the current entry as obsolete and creating a new entry for the data. You can clean this up by;

Open the database exclusive
Choose Clean up database from the Database menu

OR;


USE MyDatabase.DBC EXCLUSIVE
PACK
USE


Either way the DCT file will get packed and the slack space will be recovered.