>>>>FYI
>>>>MS have start to publish MSKB articles concerning VFP 8
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>>>>:-)
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>>>You mean mskb #814131 INFO: Data Reliability Enhancements in Visual FoxPro 8.0?
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>>>Unfortunatelly, the table repare method by using PACK command will only work if thre're deleted records in the table.
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>>Yes, that's a problem. I was also surprised that error #2065, which seems to be independent of SET TABLEVALIDATE, was not mentioned. It occurs on the END TRANSACTION execution when the count/size inconsistency is detected and is actually the message saying that a PACK should be used to fix it.
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>Now they'll have to add new FORCE option to the PACK command to make it always work :)

Actually, after reading your reply I went and tried the VFP8 PACK command to see if they might have changed it to always re-write the table regardless. They haven't < s >.