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What drivers the size of the files?
Hi,
Across different operations we use the same template with the same customised macros to support and roughly produce similar scopes of works (~4000-6000 lines executed over 1 week to 1 month). One site/operation produces files that routinely come out at 10-12MB and another 45-50MB.
What could drive such a large discrepancy?
Knowing increasingly large file sizes can cause instability, what should we be doing about it?
TIA,
Josh
2 Replies
Without knowing a lot more about your Project version and your files its impossible to say why there is a large discrepancy in file size. Are the files part of a linked structure? Do you use a resource pool? Do you have a large number of resources? Are there any images attached to the files? And a host of other things can affect file size.
But, here's something you can try. At the location where the files are larger, save the files as XML. Then re-open the XML files in Project. This often clears corruption and bloat. Please note you will lose any custom formatting with this process.
John
Thanks John for the quick response.
We are using Project Professional (build 2305).I'll give the XML method go with both files and see where each lands.Using the XML method the smaller file reduces slightly in size, the larger file goes from 46MB to 18MB which is quite significant.
Each file should be standalone, built fresh from a standardised template (.mpt file) which is intermittently updated and improved. None of them are linked.
We are scheduling major works exported from our ERP (SAP at this time). The resources are a component of this data imported so do not use a resource pool. But we do have significantly more unique resource names at the operation with the larger file.
Josh
