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From: willcox@urbana.mcd.mot.com (David A Willcox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Dollars & Sense 4.x Archives - What good are they ?
Message-ID: <1472@urbana.mcd.mot.com>
Date: 17 Jan 91 17:41:04 GMT
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In article <1470@urbana.mcd.mot.com> willcox@urbana.mcd.mot.com (David A Willcox) writes:

>HOWEVER, I have not switched over to using 5.0, and will not before
>there is another release.  The problem is that the database file grows
>without bound; there is no way to recover unused space in it.  In
>4.1c, if your file got too big, you could archive some transactions
>and then do a "Save as".  The new saved file would have the unused
>(archived) transactions compressed out.  This isn't true in 5.0.  My
>database file under 5.0 was well over a megabyte, and I could see no
>way to reduce it.

Just to follow up - I talked to The Software Toolworks today, and they
say that this won't be fixed until version 5.1.  I'm supposed to call
them again if I don't hear from them by early April.

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