I don't believe there's any way to remove records from a table without a PACK. Might it be the case that the records were marked as deleted and then viewed with DELETED on? Or is it possible that they were never inserted in the first place (for whatever reason)?

Regards,

Liam


>We've got an interesting problem with a FoxPro 2.6 DOS system running on a Novell 5.0 network....it appears to be dropping the occasional transaction. Sometimes they turn up deleted, and sometimes they disappear altogether, (without the file having been packed).