I have an "occasional" client who has QB Premier 2005 on a standalone XP Pro workstation. They have been letting their (offsite) bookkeeper handle maintenance on their database since they are light on technical computer skills.
I was called in to do some computer maintenance a few months ago. They were complaining that QB was running slow and I noticed that the size of their QB database was 470 MB. I told them they needed to archive the database and try to get the size down below 100 MB (at least).
They finally had their bookkeeper address the situation this weekend. However, while this weekend's QB archive shows 363 MB, the QB database still shows a size of 347 MB. (I presume that the bookkeeper knows what she's doing when it comes to archiving. She's a QB ProAdvisor and has used the product for many years).
Are there any reasons why the database might not have been significantly reduced in size?
Thanks for any input.
Merv