unused blocks

[mf]

This is more a "I wonder if" question rather than "my job depends on this"-type of question:

Is there a way to reduce the size of a file (get rid of unused blocks) without closing the file? I am dealing with a file of some 80000 records and it is being reduced by about half (it goes from about 10 MB to 7 MB when closed).

[LiveOak]

It's worse than that. The only really good way to delete unused blocks and really compress the file structure if to close out in FM Server. Open the file with a normal copy of FM and "Save a Copy as..." "Compressed Copy". It's just part of the periodic maintenance you'll need to do. If you try to keep a file/server up 100% of the time and do no maintenance, you will eventually have big problems. Just schedule in maintenance.

-bd

[mf]

Thanks for the heads up!