Hi Tore,

It's only true if a table has deleted records, otherwise PACK will do nothing.

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>even easier is PACK because pack internally does more or less the same as you do with your three commands.
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>>Hi Nuno,
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>>Don't care that. Until VFP8, VFP don't check file size of DBF file. Since VFP8, VFP checks .DBF file sizes.
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>>You can do that:
>>set table vali to 0
>> rena mydbf.dbf to mydbf.bak
>> use mydbf.bak
>> copy to mydbf
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>>after that you will see the file won't give that error. Because this process fix table size.