Hey SB

That makes sense too. Its obviously a complicated process to manage the FPT file and I think VFP does it pretty good! I have certainly used memo fields in my own projects to great use so I have no complaint about the FPT bloat. I can deal with that and work around it like everyone else :)

Just out of interest - if the file is not opened in shared access mode and you replace memo field with smaller data is it also written to end of FPT file?

Thanks again.

>Jos,
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>Even if you replace memo field with data of the same or smaler size than old one and table is open in shared mode, VFP still writes memo data at the end of the FPT file.
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>>Hey SB,
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>>You are, of course, right! (I just checked :) So its even worse than I thought because if you add some data to an existing memo field then it re-writes the entire memo data again at the end of the FPT - but this does make sense in a way since how else to handle data deletions etc. So, the PACK just removes all the old redundent copies of the memo field.
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>>Thanks.
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>>>Jos,
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