[Dxbase] Database size

[Tony Cash]

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It is an Access file compressor and will cut your database
file size by more than 50%. There is no damage to the file.
Access Maintainer just cuts out all the garbage that is not needed.

73 de Tony,  KD4K

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chuck Guenther" <ni0c at earthlink.net>
To: <dxbase at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 9:20 AM
Subject: [Dxbase] Database size


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
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