>>This was already disputed on UT (surprised?) few years ago. I remember the best answer to this was "then divide the total length of the file with this different length" :).
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>>Actually, the solution (in that case) was to show a progress indicator based on the byte position within the file, and not on number of records, but then it meant that this was done using LLFF (low-level file functions), not Append.
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>Hi Dragan,
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>Do you know the thread number to check? Ric and I showed some code with low-level functions in this thread. Also Mike proposed to write a class library for all these functions (Append, PACK, Index, etc.) with a progress bar, if we show interest in it. I'm interested, but I didn't see responses from other UTrs.

It's been at least three years ago; I think it was about the time Michel was creating UT Navigator, or was creating some add-ons for the final version, so I figure Michel was the author... [opens another window and does the search - bingo!] thread #41205 (I knew it had to be five digit :).