Nadya,

Open the table exclusive and type "PACK" in the command window AFTER you have verified that there is sufficient on the drive in question to hold copies of the .DBF and .FPT involved. You will probably get away with marginally less space.
If it fails the original file(s) will be untouched.

This is a perfectly correct way to do it.

Cheers,

JimN

>Hi everyone,
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>First of all, sorry, if this question was asked before. I just don't know, how to search the necessary thread. Searching by "PACK" gave me >3000 threads...
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>I want to implement pack command in VFP database. I vaguely remember Ed Rauh's response about how it should be done correctly. Could somebody advise (with code samples, if it's possible), what's the best way of implementing "PACK" command in a Database.
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>I know about Stonefield, but unfortunately, we haven't choosen it in the first place and therefore now it's not an option :(