file size exploding

[willi bechter]

working on a large mpp file with 2000 activities, the size
of the file went up from 20 mb to 227 mb without any
obivious reason.

 

[JulieS]

Hi Willi,

See FAQ # 43 at
http://www.mvps.org/project

Hope this helps.
Julie

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi Willi,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

If you suspect a corrupt file, you could try the suggestions in FAQ Item:
43. File Bloat? - Might be Corruption.

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: http://www.mvps.org/project/.

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on

Mike Glen
Project MVP

 

[Ian Coletti]

I just tried this out on several "large" files. Seems to work very well...

At first, thought it was a lot of extraneous calendars that existed in both
my schedules and resource pools. That was part of the problem, but the file
corruption issue was the main one I think.

Thanks!

Ian Coletti, PMP
Edwards Industries, LLC

 

[Mike Glen]

You're welcome, Ian, glad you got it sorted

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP

 

[Ian Coletti]

Thanks!

A bit of an update. I did discover that I needed to *not* open the resource
pool when following this procedure. This goes for both creating the MPD
file and saving back as an MPP file.

Cheers,

Ian