[AccessD] Access 2003 - 50 meg FE

jwcolby jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Fri Apr 29 12:17:53 CDT 2011


Well... I haven't managed to address this yet.  The last few days were pure overload.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com

On 4/29/2011 12:57 PM, Dan Waters wrote:
> John - how did it go?
>
> Dan
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> sure.
>
>
> John W. Colby
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> 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
>>
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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
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>> 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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