Copy that, Gary. I haven't read that book. All the same, HAVE you bloody well tried reindexing?!!! :-))
Even as a first resort? Who knows what weird and wonderful things go on behind the scenes in FP commands like PACK. Sergey does :-)

Cheers

Terry

>>>Well that's news to me. I thought Pack just permanently removes rec's >>marked as deleted. If that's the case, and you haven't reindexed, then you >>WILL get the same indexing problem everyday. 'sup to you
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>My understanding is that pack does the following
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>COPY TO WITH PRODUCTION FOR !DELETED()
>DELETE FILE
>RENAME TO
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>Therefore it is mightier that the REINDEX!
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>The Hackers Guide to VFP7 states:
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>"PACK permanently removes all marked records. What it actually does is copy all the unmarked records into a new file and then rename the new file. (The table is also reindexed.) Because PACK does this behind the scenes, there is a small chance for data loss if your system crashes during a PACK."
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>Regards
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>Gary.

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