Or you could have said to simply remove the REINDEX and otherwise leave it alone. I *think* that was the crux of the original question.


I agree, of course, that the PACK would have substantially improved speed by doing a DELETE TAG ALL first. And in a tightly constrained HD-space situation that might be the way one would have to do it.

Cheers


>True enough. I really should have said, you could use delete tag all, pack, do your own indexing routine, or save yourself major grief and buy SDT!
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>>>So, the best approach to packing would be to delete tag all, pack, do your indexing routine.
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>>If you can live with DELETE TAG ALL side effects (e.g. losing information like permanent relations).