Why won't my baselined Project Plan decrease in size after deleti.

[smcolgan41]

I previously attached many .jpeg and word docs to my baselined project plan.
I went through and deleted a lot of them because my file size ended up at 120
MB. However, the file size will not decrease at all. Why is this?

 

[Mike Glen]

Hi smcolgan41 ,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup

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

 

[Guest]

I find that if you save a MS Project file using Save As
instead of just Save, this will sometimes prompt MS
Project to do some file compression/cleanup... in other
words, even though you are deleting those attachments,
they are still hanging around in the file until the file
is "cleaned up". This is similar to doing a Repair and
Compact in MS Access.

It's easy and usually effective!