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From: Lee Hoffman/KY <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] File extension .fpt
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 23:24:45 -0400
References: <4.1.20001001091221.00a8da60@pop.mis.net><4.1.20001002111717.009322c0@pop.mis.net>
In-Reply-To: <39D8D680.203DB24A@swbell.net>


wrote:
>Lee, Many thanks for your suggestion. I had not tried this. However,
>the toolbar Exhibit icon > Focus > All Exhibits brought up an empty
>display. This appears to be one burden without a benefit (an exhibit
>which could never make it to a report and could never be deleted). I
>will *never* touch an exhibit button again! I think the only remedy is
>to create a new dataset and restore data from an earlier backup - plus
>cutting and pasting from the old dataset to retrieve what I had
>entered. Thanks as always for your patient willingness to help.

My mother used to say "better say maybe, never can tell". There is no
reason why you shouldn't use the Exhibits icon button in the future. And
this brings up a question that I have been wondering about -- why are you
so concerned about the *I.FPT (and corresponding *I.DBF) files? There are
other files that will be created and deleted (or not) as needed by TMG.

If you really don't have any Exhibits, there is another way that I expect
will reduce the size of the *I.xxx files (or eliminate them). That is to
copy the dataset. Select File=>Copy from the top menu while you have yoiur
dataset open. In the Copy/Export Data Set window, enter in the Destination
a path and dataset name. Then click on the OK button. After the dataset
is copied, you should have a minimal pair of *I.xxx files.





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