Re: Bloated MS Project file

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From: Mike Glen (glenATmvps.org)
Date: 03/11/04 

Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 23:21:22 -0000

Hi Phuong,

Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup :-)

If you suspect a corrupt file, you could try the suggestions in FAQ Item:
43. File Bloat? - Might be Corruption.

FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address: http://www.mvps.org/project/.

Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on :-)

Mike Glen
Project MVP

Phuong Nguyen wrote:
> I have a project file with about 600 tasks. The project
> size however, has grown to 15 Mb's and there is no end in
> site. Project crashed on me a few times a week during
> various scenarios - saving, opening, etc...
>
> I have tried to export it to Access and run the repair
> utility but it did not reduce the size. I also tried to
> save it as an mpd file and then bring it back to MS
> Project to no avail. Has anyone run into this problem
> before?
>
> Thanks,
> Phuong

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