I've noticed that my backup file size varies
considerably. Sometimes its very close to the origonal
file size and sometimes its more than 25% larger. Why?

Re: backup file size by via_newsgroup

via_newsgroup
Thu Oct 30 03:23:53 CST 2003

In microsoft.public.money, jerry wrote:

>I've noticed that my backup file size varies
>considerably. Sometimes its very close to the origonal
>file size and sometimes its more than 25% larger. Why?

You probably did not set Tools->Options->MakeMyFileSmall...


Re: backup file size by Scott

Scott
Thu Oct 30 06:15:38 CST 2003


"jerry" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:079001c39eb1$491ea150$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> I've noticed that my backup file size varies
> considerably. Sometimes its very close to the origonal
> file size and sometimes its more than 25% larger. Why?

Money writes the backup file on exit.

After writing the backup file, Money will periodically compact the main
file. When this happens, the backup file will be larger than the main file.

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Scott Tyler
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