(GRX) Too many Free chain Builds

[Chris Sellitto]

To all,

My question is in regard to Free chains, and what the acceptable daily occurrence should be?  We have a Windows 200x server with approximately 80 Windows workstations running filePro 5.0.13 (we just downloaded the 5.0.14 upgrade which has yet to be installed).  I would say that the last several months, one of our files (which averages several thousand a day), generates a Free chain message (2-3 on average).  Currently this file has over a million records in it, but we do archive it on a monthly basis (to about 250 thousand records).  My question is, what could cause this many Free chains to occur in one day, and is there action we could take to alleviate, or eliminate it?  

Also could running dexpand to add several thousand records help?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thank You in advance
Christopher Sellitto
VP Computer Operations
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