>>I think no deleted records are saved for forms, but for classes, indeed, VFP packs the table under certain circumstances - circumstances which I was not able to figure out.
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>Perhaps Clean Up Project in the Project menu.
Ah, yes, that is a possibility.
>Also, Disk space is allocated in clusters. Maybe he is near a cluster boundary.
That wouldn't show up in the reported filesize (in the directory) - however, in Windows 98 or later, it will be reported (together with the size reported in the directory) in "properties".
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