Converted from 2000 to 97, question?

[JPritch]

When I converted my database from 2000 to 97, the size of the database shrunk from 3.9MB to 1.5MB.

This worries me in that something didn't come over to 97. I checked the functionality and everything is working like it should.

Is this normal for a 2000 to 97 conversion?

 

[FoFa]

Did you compress it before you converted it? It might have done that during the conversion, and you would be not comparing the same thing.

 

[JPritch]

Good idea.

I was unable to compress the 2000 version, and more than likely the conversion probably did a compact on the 97 version.

I wonder why it was able to compact in 97 and not in 2000? In 2000, I kept getting a "Could not find field 'fieldname' " error message. Don't get it in 97 and nothing structurally has changed.