Now huge data file?

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On 03/03/2014 05:50 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> On 3 March 2014 10:36, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>> Alek <peace at AleksandrSolzhenitsyn.net> writes:
>>
>>> My GC account file (with all the banking information in it) went from 2
>>> meg to 24 meg in a few minutes.
>>>
>>> I didn't add in much new banking information- maybe 2 transactions.
>>>
>>> File Compression is set in Preferences.
>>>
>>> Do you have an idea what made the file so big so quickly?
>>>
>>> How can I fix it?
>> There are only two reasons your file would do this:
>>
>> 1) Compression got turned off, or
>> 2) You changed from XML to SQL backend.
Compression is on and was never changed.

There's no way for me to change from xml to sql backend as I simply
wouldn't know how to and don't even know what a backend is.

The problem was sort of solved- I just resorted to a backed up copy.

Thanks for the suggestions.


> I thought I remembered a post a short while ago where a large number
> of additional lines got inserted into file for some reason, but I
> can't find the post now.  Perhaps my memory is failing me.
>
> @OP if you save it uncompressed you can open it with notepad or
> similar and see if there is anything obvious there.
>
> Colin


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