>You could always "recycle" the records - this is what we do with VFP mtdll web apps since it was so hard to do a pack in a web app. For records that you intend to delete just blank out the key field and any additional fields. Then when you add a new record just seek the first empty key and add to it. It works great for our web apps and keeps the file size way down...

Claude,

This is an excellent approach...we use it as well.