the subject of your message is kind of the answer to your question.
DmRemoveRecord removes the whole record.
DmDeleteRecord marks the record for deletion by a conduit - this allows a
conduit to make a backup on the desktop before deleting the record.
it sounds like you want DmRemoveRecord.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ion Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Palm Developer Forum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, March 11, 1999 4:42 PM
Subject: Diff between DmDeleteRecord and DmRemoveRecord
>I am writing an app that gets its DB backed up by
>HotSync. I am using DmDeleteRecord() to delete records.
>But the record indices (record headers) are not
>removed even after a HotSync. I can see those entries
>on the desktop PDB file when viewed with a program.
>Is it the duty of the conduit ( my app doesn't have
>any ) to explicitly remove these record traces?. My
>app doesn't require any conduits. I just want the PDB
>backup-ed on the PC. As my app runs longer and longer,
>I find traces (headers) of previously deleted records accumulating in
>the .PDB file.
>
