Chuck, I'll second that recommendation on "Access Maintainer".
Jim - K9DD ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Cash" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Chuck Guenther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> 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 > > My Weather Page > http://home.adelphia.net/~tonycash/ > My Ham Radio Page > http://home.adelphia.net/~tonycash/kd4k/radio.html > Sawnee Mountain (WB4GQX 147.15 +.600) Repeater Page > http://home.adelphia.net/~tonycash/sawnee/index.html > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chuck Guenther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > 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 > ______________________________________________________________ > Dxbase mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Dxbase mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Oct 12 19:19:59 2004 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joseph Glockner) Date: Tue Oct 12 19:29:18 2004 Subject: [Dxbase] Database size References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Chuck, Tnx a million for that info!! Glad that the Access Maintainer 1.2.0 (Access 97 friendly) worked out for you! 73 Joe WA6AXE Chuck Guenther wrote: > Hi Joe, > > It worked! Thanks to your helpful e-mails and phone call, I now have my > NI0C.mdb file shrunk to 6.21 MB-- very close to what you estimated. Thanks > for making Access Maintainer available, and for all your help. > > 73 de Chuck NI0C > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joseph Glockner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Chuck Guenther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 10:44 AM > Subject: Re: [Dxbase] Database size > > > >>Chuck, >> >>If you wish to download a copy (ziped up file) of the Access Maintainer >>program - you can do so from my website -- here is the LINK : >> >> >>ftp://ftp.qsl.net/pub/wa6axe/am.zip >> >> >>73 Joe WA6AXE >> >>Chuck Guenther wrote: >> >>>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 >>>______________________________________________________________ >>>Dxbase mailing list >>>Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase >>>Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >>>Post: mailto:[email protected] >>> >> >> > >
