Dennis,

There is no way to physically remove them, besides performing a pack, or copying the records to a new table. Physically removing records every time one is deleted would be a very inefficient operation...in reality it would require rewriting all records after the delete point.

>I was just wondering why foxpro marks records for deletion rather than physically deleting the records.
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>I know you can pack the tables to permanantely remove them. Is there a way to tell it to physically remove them vs marking them?
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