Hi Paul,

I suggest you forget about PACK, and SET DELETED ON in stead. PACK s not meant for everyday use, I rarely PACK more than once per year! If you need to PACK frequently, cursors are usually a much better approach.

>Hello,
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>I am a Foxpro 6 beginner, and I have created a form with a grid that has a simple table attached to it. With the grid I have added records to the table. All OK so far.
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>However, now I want to delete all the records from the table and from the grid by clicking button A, and then recommence adding records without restarting the form. This is where the problem starts.
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>In the buttonclick event I have tried issuing the normal DELETE command, and then the PACK command, but I get a "File is open in another workarea" error with PACK, when I know that the table is not used anywhere else.
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>Does Foxpro think the table is open elsewhere because it is still the recordsource for the grid??? Do I have to separate the table from the grid before issuing the PACK command (but this doensn't work either I think).
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>Has anyone else come across a similar problem?
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>Hopefully,
>Trimtrom