What makes a file fat

H

Hugh

I have been working on a large project file (5,000 tasks 88mb) for the
last year and I notice it is taking longer for my scripts to run.
Recently I put together a new project file of about the same number of
tasks and complexity but it is currently only 7mb and my scripts as
you would expect are lighting fast. All my scripts are in my global
file. What I am wondering is what is bloating the older file. My boss
thought it was saving lots of links. We removed links on completed
tasks and there were only negligible results. We have been adding
notes here and there and there are some custom columns inserted with
custom names, but again it wouldn't seem like that much more info.

Does project need more space to save a task's %complete when it is
100% rather than 0%? (Doesn't make sense does it)

If you have tasks with high U.ID will that lengthen the time for some
processes? The older file has only 5,000 tasks but we are on UID #
47,000 (It's a long story…)

What else makes a file get big?

Thanks for any help.

Hugh
 
L

Lars Hammarberg

Time-phased data, probably!
Especially if the project calendar work day or resource calendar day doesn't
match the Tools/options/calendar settings!
I've seen files of up to 25MB shrink to 250KB after re-writing to match.
 

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