From: "Adriano dos Santos Fernandes"

> Also, your problem may be due to DEFAULT '' on the blob field... Maybe
> each of these empty blobs are occupying a blob page (= 4096 * 40000 bytes).

Thanks Adriano!
I first removed the default '' from the blob field "notas" domain, and imported
the DBF, and again, the DB grew to 179,00 kb, but then I commented out the line
in my progran which assigns the blob field, and imported again, and the DB now
is 12MB, so the problem was in the blob field.

I use IBX (the one which comes with delphi 6) and I use Apollo to read the DBF
tables (which has the blolb fields in a separate file (.FPT). Do you think that
the problem in on any of the components I'm usin to accesS data? More or less,
the import routine looks like this, do you see any wrong with it?


while not DBF_Stock.Eof do
begin

if DBF_StockID.AsInteger <> 0 then
begin

Stock.Insert;

try

StockID.AsInteger := DBF_StockID.AsInteger;
StockCANTIDAD.AsInteger := DBF_StockCANTIDAD.AsInteger;

[... AND SO ON...]

// ** THIS IS THE BLOB **
StockNOTAS.asString := DBF_StockNOTA.AsString;

Stock.Post;

Application.ProcessMessages;

except
memo2.Lines.Add(_ERROR + DBF_StockID.AsString + ' -- ' +
DBF_StockDESCRIP.AsString );
Stock.Cancel;

end;

end;

DBF_Stock.Next;

end;