Dramatic increase in the size of the principal IQBase:
Date                Size Mb
17/01/2016    41
18/01/2016    460
20/01/2016    1990

By my sizing:
2000 journal entries, each on average 250 words of 7.5 characters in length = 3,75 Mb
Actual journal size = 374535 words = 2.84 Mb (average word length = 7.5 characters)

 

This is blocking progress for me. I have input only about 15% of my journal entries and the database is close to the physical limit for a JET / Microsoft Access database. I dare not add more text for fear that the IQbase will "explode".

 

UPDATE: The reason the post was invisible was that I pasted direct from MS Word in the absence of the forum feature (removed, Pierre?) to paste Word text.

 

I have copied Word into NotePad to get this updated text.

 

Tom: Thanks for your suggestion. Compact has worked, brilliantly (IQbase now 12Mb, a 100-fold reduction. I had been trying Rebuild, which appeared to loop.