Blank Record

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Yes in my experience that is quite normal and nothing to worry about. Personally I like to pre-expand the file using option A. Reserving a whole block of file space at one time. That way there would be less file fragmentation compared to getting hard drive space one record at a time.  

Dan

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> On Jan 16, 2014, at 1:42 PM, Harold <haroldef at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi Filepro Users,
> 
> I have a question.Is it normal for Filepro to have a blank record at the 
> end of the group of records.
> 
> We have 1947 men in our file that lists every man we have found in the 
> U.S. that served on the Destroyer U.S.S. McCaffery DDE860.That means 
> that there should be 1947 records in our file.
> 
> But, we have 1948 records in the file, the last one being blank.When we 
> add a new member, the data for this man is entered, such as address, 
> city and state.When we have entered all data, we hit the ESC button to 
> record the data. The data is recorded and the screen shows the next 
> record, which is blank.
> 
> I do a control-C to move the cursor down to the "Enter Selection," at 
> the bottom of the screen.However, the record number shows 1948 instead 
> of 1947.
> 
> If I do add a new man, he is given the record number 1948, but before I 
> add a new man, how can I prevent the record number from showing 1948?
> 
> Take Care,
> 
> Harold
> 
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