You can also compress 'refdata.mdb', however its not that big to start with (about 1.5mb). It might compress a little bit.
What you will see is that your 8.5 mb file will quickly expand to about double that size, however even that is a huge improvement over 67 mb! Ron ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Parry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ron Stordahl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 8:51 AM Subject: RE: [DXBase] My .mdb is getting big > Ron, et al > > I experimented with a couple of methods. The one that Ron suggested was the > best (in my opinion.) I started with a 67 Meg file and now it is an 8.5 Meg > file! It was fast and no problems. This should solve my problem for some > time! It would be nice to build this into DXbase 2004, it would help those > of us who are "tech challenged". > > Bill, W5VX > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ron Stordahl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 9:15 AM > To: Bill Parry; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [DXBase] My .mdb is getting big > > > I use http://www.gracemere.com/AccessMaintainer/downloadnow.asp > > It's free and it installs such that when you right click on the file name > from Windows Explorer in addition to the usual things in the drop down list > you will also get an option to compact the data base. You will be amazed > how much smaller your data base will be. You said its 67 MB now, let us > know what happens. > > Ron N5IN > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bill Parry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 8:20 AM > Subject: [DXBase] My .mdb is getting big > > > > I keep my DXBase 2003 on two computers in my shack. The one I log from is > > old and slow, so when I do QSLs and maintenance I always do it on my other > > computer. I have a Zip drive on both computers and I copy the files from > one > > computer and put them on the other. This has the advantage of keeping me > > backed up in case my old computer dies on me. > > > > Over the last year my log file has ballooned to 67 Megs and I know a lot > of > > guys must have much larger log files than this. Soon I won't be able to > copy > > my files onto a 100meg zip anymore, not to mention it will take a long > time. > > I read earlier that you can use Access to "compact" these files but I > wasn't > > able to get it to work out for me. > > > > While we are asking for additions to DXBase 2003 for the upcoming version, > I > > really wish that something could be built in to allow us to make this file > a > > little smaller. > > > > Bill, W5VX > > > > _______________________________________________ > > DXBase Reflector - Please visit us on the web at www.dxbase.com > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > To UNSUBSCRIBE please visit: > > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > > >
