ballooning file sizes in access 2007

[DataMiner]

I've recently completed converting all my db's to access 2007. now i'm noticing seriously ballooning file sizes, even though i've got compact/repair on close turned on.

all of my db's are split into fe's and be's, and it's the fe's that are ballooning (be's are all on sql server). I distribute fe's to each user and keep one "frozen" copy of each fe that never gets used. Now, for example, i have a db where the "frozen" copy is about 4MB, but the copy in use is 35MB. The contents of the db (what's visible to me, anyway) look identical.

any ideas?

 

[boblarson]

Do you have any make table queries or do a lot of deleting and appending records?

 

[DataMiner]

No. anyway, no changes to the db from it's access 2002version, other than the 2007 conversion. and i did not have this ballooning issue in 2002.

 

[shadow9449]

I asked this question in this thread:

David answered the question (sorta) in post 5.

SHADOW

 

[DataMiner]

Either i don't understand the answer or it doesn't help. My bloating is occuring in frontends. I do a fair amount of "refreshing" tables, by which I mean deleting all the records in the table and then re-appending. But the tables are all backend, mostly in SQL server. The data stored in the frontend is limited to a couple of small (200 records or fewer) local tables.

Repair/Compact does NOT decrease the size of the db.

Any other ideas???

 

[DataMiner]

I've created a separate thread under "repair/compact seems not to be working in Access 2007", which I believe I've confirmed to be the problem here. See the new thread for more info.