Deleted records but didn't change file size

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Mike D

I have an existing database that has reached over 20MB
and can take a while to access over a network. So, I
copied the file and backed up the old one. I then
deleted all of the records.
Why hasn't my file size changed?? I was expecting it to
go down to under 100kb. Is there some extra "purge" that
needs to be done??
 
Space that was used for deleted Records are not automatically recovered.
You need to compact the database to recover the unused space in the
database.

The Compact (and Repair) command is available in the Menu Tools / Database
Utilities...
 
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