>opend the table exclusive
>deletes all records
>packs the table
>then reindex the table

2 Questions...

Why reindex the table when it has no records?
Why not just ZAP the table - much faster and probably better anyway?

I answer to your question - i have no idea why the reindex would change the shared attrib on the table, but now you know you can probably work around it!

Cheers

Will