Group: microsoft.public.access
From: "David W. Fenton"
Date: Monday, October 22, 2007 2:56 PM
Subject: Re: Is there any point in converting a back end database to an MDE?

"David Anderson" wrote in
news:#shG1vCFIHA.6120@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl:

> I might have been a little hasty in rejecting the MDE format. My
> back end MDB file is 4.2MB, even after several Compact & Repair
> procedures. However an MDE derived from this database is only
> 1.4MB. Can anyone explain this?

Does it stay that size after use? I strongly doubt that it would.

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