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Large File size & increasing

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Wed, 2004-05-19 23:48
Ray Messinger
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I have been given a MSP file that is about 4 MB but only has 40 activities. If I delete some activities and save it the file size increases. There are no graphics.

I have seen this before in MSWord with versioning turned on. Does MSP have something similar? I can’t find it.
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Thu, 2004-05-20 03:29
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MK TSE
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I don’t know this one will help or not.
Some documents from Microsoft
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;186074&Product=PRJ
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;239489&Product=PRJ
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;187373&Product=PRJ
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Thu, 2004-05-20 03:10
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Will Russell
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I have the same problem with a file expanding from 13Mb to 25Mb.
What you need to do is save the file as a Microsoft Access Database and then save it back as a Microsoft project file, this can take some time but it brings the file size down.
Will
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