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forge ahead assuming all is fine with this new "shrunken" file. One thing's
for certain, my performance sure imporoved!
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In microsoft.public.money, Alex wrote:

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I am pretty sure Money does not save the Money file as a compressed
file. If you turn on display of extension or use a command window
dir command, the Money file has a .mny extension, and the backup
files are .mbf files.

I don't know the reason for the shrinkage, but perhaps you got Money
to delete a bunch of old quotes.

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Well, it's not labeled as a "Microsoft Money Backup File", so no. However,
it's virtually the same size as my actual backup file. That seems to be a
pretty big coincidence...

A bit more background: My money file and backup money file both reside in a
folder underneath my My Documents folder. Before running the quick repair
utility, I first copied the 38 meg money file over to just a temp folder on
my hard drive. Then I launched that file by double-clicking it, and ran the
quick repair on it. Now, the file is 12 meg in size. When opening this
file, I do get a message from Money asking if this is my "primary" money file
or not, since it somehow detected that my Passport is being used on 2
different files. I choose the default, which is "not my primary money file."
-I doubt any of that mattters, but I figured I'd throw it in.

As for the file size, even if it did save it as a compressed backup, will
that hurt me in any way?

"Cal Learner-- MVP" wrote:

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In microsoft.public.money, Alex wrote:

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That seems like a lot. Are you sure the 12 meg file is not a
compressed backup?

Yeah, it happens. You almost definitely didn't lose any data, but Money
occasionally optimizes the database and that results in some significant
savings.

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"Alex" <Alex[at]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C3DB68FF-FFE7-4787-BCFB-E40FA6A4B838[at]microsoft.com...
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Hi all, long time Money user here. Started with 2001, and have been using
2004 for a couple of years now. Due to a discrepency between the balance of
one of my accounts in the register vs. the "account list" screen, I attempted
to try the Quick file Repair feature per suggestions from the newsgroup as
well as a KB article. (I've never done a file repair before with either 2004
or 2001)

Anyway, whatever it did worked in that my balances now match between the 2
screens. However, I notice that now my Money file is about 12 meg, whereas
before it was almost 38 meg. Is this normal?? I don't *see* any data
missing anywhere, so I'm not sure how it shrunk my file so much unless it
compressed the data for some reason.

I searched the newgroup and the FAQ and didn't see anything on this, so
sorry if it's common knowledge. Thanks in advance for any help!