[Dxbase] Database size

[Chuck Guenther]

I'm using DXBase 2005 on an HP laptop.  I have an outboard 100MB Iomega Zip drive, plus a 128MB flash memory device that connects to a USB port.  These are used to back up my NI0C.mdb and .CO files.

I'm concerned about the rate of growth of my QSO log file.  It started out at around 15 MB when I upgraded from DXBase 2004.  This was with about 5K qso's logged.  Now, only a couple hundred qso's later, the file is up to over 70MB.  The rate of growth of this file seems way out of proportion to the number of QSO's.  I am very frugal with adding QSL addresses and use few QSO notes.  Can anyone explain what is going on here?  How big can this file get? I am obviously nearing the limits of my back-up devices.  My CD drive is a read-only type. My only option seems to be to get a 256MB flash device and/or upgrade computers.

73 de Chuck  NI0C