Money: Why Are My Files Larger (174978)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Money 2004 Deluxe
- Microsoft Money 2003 Standard
- Microsoft Money 2002
- Microsoft Money 2001
- Microsoft Money 2000
- Microsoft Money 99
- Microsoft Money 98
- Microsoft Money 2000 Business and Personal
- Microsoft Money 98 Deluxe Edition
- Microsoft Money 98 Financial Suite
This article was previously published under Q174978 SUMMARY After you convert to Microsoft Money 98 or later from an
earlier version, you may be asking "why is my converted file so big?"
MORE INFORMATION The Money 5.0 database had the advantage of being very
small and extremely fast, but it had the disadvantage of being hard to modify.
Given the scope of the features that we wanted to add to Money, we knew we
needed to find a different database. We chose the Jet database for Money
because it gave us the flexibility we needed to implement new features now, and
for future versions of Money as well.
When making this decision we
had to consider the file size and performance of the Jet database and how these
would impact our users. We felt the features that we added to Money outweighed
the short-term cost of the file size and the performance. It is obvious that
file size and performance are a big concern and we've made a commitment to
continue working on this for the next version of Money.
We realize
that one of the most important activities for our users is the ability to back
up your personal file to a diskette. To ensure that you can continue to back up
your files, we added compression to the backup option in Money. Files are
compressed when you back up to a disk or when you back up to your hard disk,
and most files will fit on a disk. For those users who are long-time Money
users and have very large files, you can decrease the size of your Money file
by archiving old data.
| Modification Type: | Minor | Last Reviewed: | 12/2/2005 |
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