Himar,
In every version, if VFP can get exclusive use of the vcx it'll pack it, but I'm not sure what really prevents it from getting it exclusive. I never really worried about it. The deleted records were a crude version control and I either just packed when it got excessively big.
>It seemed to me, back in VFP3, that the class library was packed automatically under certain circumstances, but I couldn't quite figure out when this happened. Do you know about this?