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John Oesterle

Somehow my boss has run into a confusing situation. He
has a dadabase called Reports.mdb but for sume mysterious
reson there is also a dadabace called Reports_Backup.mdb
that was not created by him (supposedly). Now that
woulden't be all that bad however the *_Backup version is
11,000KB and the original is 2,000KB wich leeds me to
beleve that the _Backup file is more up to date than the
origonal. I dont see how this could be if the file is
meerly a backup of the origonal. Somebody plese
explane!!! I would be verry greatfull.

Thanks,
JOHN
 
What are the dates in the properties of the each file? This should give you
a clue which is newer. It is very possible that the Backup was created
before the boss ran a compile on the other database, which could bring the
size down to 2,000 KB from 11,000KB.
 
Someone could have compacted a bloated version and turned 11 into 2.
Someone might have pared some old data. The file dates might be
enlightening. Check the dates before you get in and poke around. Then get
in and poke around and see if there's any difference. By the way, has this
application been separated into a front-end, back-end configuration? It
should be and having the tables separate from the rest of the application
would give you a clue as to which part changed in size. People think that
their data grows quickly but you'd be amazed how much the front end bloats
with lots of changes.

By the way, do you exercise your spell checker? :-)

hth
 
GVaught said:
What are the dates in the properties of the each file? This should give you
a clue which is newer. It is very possible that the Backup was created
before the boss ran a compile on the other database, which could bring the
size down to 2,000 KB from 11,000KB.
Click to expand...

I suspect you meant compact not compile.

Tony
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