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Posted by David A. Lessnau on September 4, 2007, 9:04 am
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Nope. Just a straight conversion. The last Copy I did was back near the
start of the year. Even if the size reduction is a temporary one from the
conversion process, that's better than my last upgrade. Three years ago,
when I went from Q03 to Q05, my primary data file increased from its
original 16MB to a new 19MB. So going from 28MB to 17MB is a new and good
thing.
Dave
> On Sep 2, 1:53 pm, "David A. Lessnau"
>> Just thought I'd pass along that the file size for Quicken 2008 seems
>> much
>> smaller than that for Q05. For my two QDF files, my primary one went
>> from
>> 28MB to 17MB, and my secondary one went from 15MB to 7MB. I suppose it's
>> possible the difference could be from some kind of data fragmentation in
>> the
>> old files while the newly converted versions are still nicely compact
>> from
>> the conversion process. But, those are awfully big differences to chalk
>> up
>> to just internal fragmentation.
>>
>> Dave
>
> Possible explanation - did you do a Copy operation on your old file
> before the conversion - and convert the "copy"? - or did you just
> convert without the Copy operation?
>
> QW's Copy operation flushes out any unlinked transactions in the file
> - example - deleting a transaction does not remove it from the
> database. The deleted transaction remains, but is not linked. I
> suspect the conversion process may include cleaning up the old
> database - and result in a reduction in file size.
>
> I periodically do a Copy operation on my file and usually note a
> reduction in size.
>
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