[AccessD] Access 2003 - 50 meg FE

Dan Waters df.waters at comcast.net
Fri Apr 29 11:57:50 CDT 2011


John - how did it go?

Dan

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sure.


John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com

On 4/26/2011 1:53 PM, Dan Waters wrote:
> John,
>
> I made and have been testing an essentially one-click access utility 
> which will do export to text and import from text of all the objects 
> except tables.  Do you want to try it?
>
> Dan
>
> -----Original Message-----
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>
>   >>>  First thing that comes to mind is an ole object - image or 
> whatever in one of the forms or report.
>
> Hmm... I do have an activeX control for the IE object.
>
>
> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
>
> On 4/26/2011 10:41 AM, John Bartow wrote:
>> First thing that comes to mind is an ole object - image or whatever 
>> in one of the forms or report. Even jpegs seem to increase the size 
>> far too much if one would accidently or otherwise paste a exe, dll, 
>> wmv or something into a form I'd imagine it would get huge. Check the 
>> forms and reports over and remove any ole objects or embedded images. 
>> Then decompile, compact, compile, compact.
>>
>> If that accomplishes nothing then I'd import it into a new db.
>>
>> Best of luck,
>> John B
>>
>> BTW have you tried running Eatbloat on it?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 7:47 AM
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>> Subject: [AccessD] Access 2003 - 50 meg FE
>>
>> I have a very simple FE, 20 linked tables (to SQL Server), 10 forms, 
>> 1 report, a handful of classes and modules.
>>
>> The bugger is 50 megs and won't shrink down when I compact / repair.
>> It should probably be a couple of megs.
>>
>> Has anyone run across anything I should be looking at?
>>
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