Ok, thanks - I guess that defeats the purpose if it only works in exclusive mode...
>>Any good examples for dealing with the "memo bloat" problem? I'm specifically looking for more info about the pre-padding technique that keeps the memo size to a minimum and avoids the allocation of more space as values are added to the memo.
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>The pre-padding only works if table is open excusively. If table open SHARED VFP will write to new memo block at the end of FPT file.