DB size not true reflection of content.....

[M_Hood]

Hi, a student of ours is currently creating a simple DB using Office 2003 SP1
on WinXP. Her classmates are doing very similar DB's which are all around the
2MB mark. This one student however, has a DB of 43MB and rising. She has no
complex images in, and only 5 or 6 in total.

Today she added 2 x 200KB images, and the DB size went up 10MB.

I have tried to compact the DB with no luck. I tried removing some images
but still the file size did not reduce at all.

Any advice appreciated as this student is fast fillling her network disk
quota !

Thanks in advance.

 

[Tim Ferguson]

Today she added 2 x 200KB images, and the DB size went up 10MB.

If these are in OLE fields, then it's no surprise. The MS OLE format uses
humungous amount of overhead storage for alternative display methods, which
renders the whole thing practically useless.

For alternative approaches see both of:

http://www.mvps.org/access/forms/frm0030.htm

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;210486



Hope that helps


Tim F