file size exploding

working on a large mpp file with 2000 activities, the size
of the file went up from 20 mb to 227 mb without any
obivious reason.

JulieS
Wed Sep 08 08:55:42 CDT 2004

Hi Willi,

See FAQ # 43 at
http://www.mvps.org/project

Hope this helps.
Julie
>-----Original Message-----
>working on a large mpp file with 2000 activities, the
size
>of the file went up from 20 mb to 227 mb without any
>obivious reason.
>
>.
>

Mike
Wed Sep 08 09:17:54 CDT 2004

Hi Willi,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :-)

If you suspect a corrupt file, you could try the suggestions in FAQ Item:
43. File Bloat? - Might be Corruption.

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: http://www.mvps.org/project/.

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on :-)

Mike Glen
Project MVP

willi bechter wrote:
> working on a large mpp file with 2000 activities, the size
> of the file went up from 20 mb to 227 mb without any
> obivious reason.

Ian
Tue Sep 28 11:33:04 CDT 2004

I just tried this out on several "large" files. Seems to work very well...

At first, thought it was a lot of extraneous calendars that existed in both
my schedules and resource pools. That was part of the problem, but the file
corruption issue was the main one I think.

Thanks!

Ian Coletti, PMP
Edwards Industries, LLC


"Mike Glen" wrote:

> Hi Willi,
>
> Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :-)
>
> If you suspect a corrupt file, you could try the suggestions in FAQ Item:
> 43. File Bloat? - Might be Corruption.
>
> FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
> this web address: http://www.mvps.org/project/.
>
> Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on :-)
>
> Mike Glen
> Project MVP
>
> willi bechter wrote:
> > working on a large mpp file with 2000 activities, the size
> > of the file went up from 20 mb to 227 mb without any
> > obivious reason.
>
>
>
>

Mike
Tue Sep 28 12:29:34 CDT 2004

You're welcome, Ian, glad you got it sorted :-)

Mike Glen
MS Project MVP


Ian Coletti wrote:
> I just tried this out on several "large" files. Seems to work very
> well...
>
> At first, thought it was a lot of extraneous calendars that existed
> in both my schedules and resource pools. That was part of the
> problem, but the file corruption issue was the main one I think.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ian Coletti, PMP
> Edwards Industries, LLC
>
>
> "Mike Glen" wrote:
>
>> Hi Willi,
>>
>> Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :-)
>>
>> If you suspect a corrupt file, you could try the suggestions in FAQ
>> Item:
>> 43. File Bloat? - Might be Corruption.
>>
>> FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be
>> seen at this web address: http://www.mvps.org/project/.
>>
>> Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on :-)
>>
>> Mike Glen
>> Project MVP
>>
>> willi bechter wrote:
>>> working on a large mpp file with 2000 activities, the size
>>> of the file went up from 20 mb to 227 mb without any
>>> obivious reason.

IanColetti
Tue Sep 28 14:21:01 CDT 2004

Thanks!

A bit of an update. I did discover that I needed to *not* open the resource
pool when following this procedure. This goes for both creating the MPD
file and saving back as an MPP file.

Cheers,

Ian

"Mike Glen" wrote:

> You're welcome, Ian, glad you got it sorted :-)
>
> Mike Glen
> MS Project MVP
>
>
> Ian Coletti wrote:
> > I just tried this out on several "large" files. Seems to work very
> > well...
> >
> > At first, thought it was a lot of extraneous calendars that existed
> > in both my schedules and resource pools. That was part of the
> > problem, but the file corruption issue was the main one I think.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Ian Coletti, PMP
> > Edwards Industries, LLC
> >
> >
> > "Mike Glen" wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Willi,
> >>
> >> Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :-)
> >>
> >> If you suspect a corrupt file, you could try the suggestions in FAQ
> >> Item:
> >> 43. File Bloat? - Might be Corruption.
> >>
> >> FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be
> >> seen at this web address: http://www.mvps.org/project/.
> >>
> >> Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on :-)
> >>
> >> Mike Glen
> >> Project MVP
> >>
> >> willi bechter wrote:
> >>> working on a large mpp file with 2000 activities, the size
> >>> of the file went up from 20 mb to 227 mb without any
> >>> obivious reason.
>
>
>