Vadim, thanks for pointing that out. I can see how that could be a problem for some but not sure yet how to address that in the script....I'll try at some point to spend some time working on that.

In most cases, the DBA running a shrink operation would check ahead of time what a reasonable/reachable target size would be. I guess because I assumed this, I never thought of what would happen by setting a unreachable target size.

thanks