Reduce ms project file size

This topic has 7 replies, 2 voices, and was last updated 4 years, 6 months ago by Clare. Viewing 8 posts - 1 through 8 of 8 total. Community Keymaster. Hi , Project has never done a good job of clearing up after changes and file bloat is quite common. Your thoughts!! Rajan Guest.

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Thank you in advance. Thursday, January 26, AM. Somigur, You say you have used some tricks but you don't say what they are. Hope this helps. Thursday, January 26, PM. Hi John, thanks for your detailed answer.

Here some info: This mpp is alive roughly 3. I guess, that in total I had about Most of them only temporarily There is no history which must be tracked There are no custom-fields There are about 50 resources in the plan There is no cost-tracking The file seems not to be corrupts The link you mention: I get some server-error, but I think I know what you mean, because I remember I was at some url, which proposed some methods The "trick" I got out of this url was: Open the file and store it immediately as a new file.

The others were not applicable to my problem as I remember It seems, that I have to copy only "simplest items". Somigur, Thanks for the more detailed information. Try those and see it it helps. If not, we'll try something else. Hi John, I tried what you said. Try using a backup copy" Did I do something wrong? Thanks Somigur. Friday, January 27, AM. Somigur, It doesn't sound like you did anything wrong but it sounds like the XML data is corrupt.

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Details required : characters remaining Cancel Submit 12 people found this reply helpful. You might want to take a look at the Wiki article noted below. Method 1 is the method you used and the article explains why that works. And no, it's not a bug. Pretty crazy. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Ismet Kocaman. Try XML. Pls see this thread:.

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