Jos,

A memo field is always stored in one piece.

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>In addition, old memo data is not removed from the memo field when it is replaced with new data. The old data is still in the FPT file too. So a PACK MEMO does two things (a) remove all the old data and (b) rejoin each memo fields seperate pieces. But still, how this all ends up on the HDD is up to the OS and state of the HDD.