[Dxbase] Database size

[Jim Dawson]

Chuck,

I'll second that recommendation on "Access Maintainer".

Jim - K9DD

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Cash" <kd4k at adelphia.net>
To: "Chuck Guenther" <ni0c at earthlink.net>; <dxbase at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 2:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Dxbase] Database size


> Go to the link below and download "Access Maintainer".
> http://gracemere.com/AccessMaintainer/downloadnow.asp
> 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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