>Actually, I meant packing the memos. Remember Garry's diet - if it works on .dbcs, why not the other stuff. I tried a bit today, but didn't change a byte. I was probably wrong - seems to be .scx and .frx get copied into arrays or cursors during editing, and copied back when saving. You can notice in a .frx that the ordering of objects on the layout maps 1-1 to physical positions of the corresponding records in the .frx; once you change their order, the record physically goes there. Nobody would do that by manipulating records in a table, but with an array, why not. Then you sort the array and copy it back into the table. If I'm right (this time), then these files are as thin as they can be. Seems to be only the .vcx'es need some packing (VCX editor takes care of that).

What you say makes sense, that would explain the nice ordering these tables have...