Hi,

I just compacted a copy of my database and it went from 35,000,000 bytes to 10,000,000 bytes.

Just want to make sure that it is safe.

Eva

compacting removes temporary information created when you use the db.

yes it is safe.

Ian

Yes perfectly safe.

I think what acces does is get bigger to accomodate tables that you create. However when you delete a table access doesn't shrink in size. You can delete all the tables and it will still stay the same size it was with the data in it.