Just thought I'd pass along that the file size for Quicken 2008 seems much smaller than that for Q05. For my two QDF files, my primary one went from
28MB to 17MB, and my secondary one went from 15MB to 7MB. I suppose it's possible the difference could be from some kind of data fragmentation in the old files while the newly converted versions are still nicely compact from the conversion process. But, those are awfully big differences to chalk up to just internal fragmentation.Dave
Why not, Intuit is throwing away features left and right! ;)
I thought this was an interesting topic so I checked my files. All my qdata files under '08 R2 are slightly smaller (perhaps by 1-2%) even after doing a week's worth of transactions.
Perhaps the drastic size difference was due to fragmentation. If you have the saved '07 pre-conversion file you could run a defrag and see if they shrink significantly.
Are you coming from Q07 to Q08? Mine was a conversion from Q05 to Q08. Maybe that explains the smaller change in your file size.
Dave
Possible explanation - did you do a Copy operation on your old file before the conversion - and convert the "copy"? - or did you just convert without the Copy operation?
QW's Copy operation flushes out any unlinked transactions in the file
- example - deleting a transaction does not remove it from the database. The deleted transaction remains, but is not linked. I suspect the conversion process may include cleaning up the old database - and result in a reduction in file size.
I periodically do a Copy operation on my file and usually note a reduction in size.
Nope. Just a straight conversion. The last Copy I did was back near the start of the year. Even if the size reduction is a temporary one from the conversion process, that's better than my last upgrade. Three years ago, when I went from Q03 to Q05, my primary data file increased from its original 16MB to a new 19MB. So going from 28MB to 17MB is a new and good thing.
Dave
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