TMG Dataset file size

[Mike Talbot 0]

When I upgraded my dataset from TMG 4 to TMG 5, the dataset SQZ file size grew by more than a factor of 10. I was horrified, but assumed it to be a fact of life. Recent discussions on this forum seem to indicate that this problem is not normal and is peculiar to my working dataset.

 

Specs

Windows XP home (up to date), lots of spare hard disk room. 2 gigs ram.

TMG 7.04

 

.SQZ file size- 235,000,000 B (seems to be 10 to 30+ times too large)

people- 85,500 people

names- 86,100

external exhibits- 12,500

other stuff- appears to be as expectedl

 

Help!!! Ideas? Is there a way to reduce dataset file sizes to normal?

 

Thank you,

[John Cardinal 0]

Mike,

 

I don't recall the details of how TMG v5 worked, but if it includes the option to have thumbnail images for exhibits, then that could explain a large increase in the size of the project given you have 12,500 exhibits. If the _i.ftp file in your project folder is by far the largest file, then that would tend to confirm my theory.

[Mike Talbot 0]

Mike,

 

I don't recall the details of how TMG v5 worked, but if it includes the option to have thumbnail images for exhibits, then that could explain a large increase in the size of the project given you have 12,500 exhibits. If the _i.ftp file in your project folder is by far the largest file, then that would tend to confirm my theory.

 

 

That was it!!!! The option in prefernces was a bit misleading and must have been the old default, way back then in TMG 5.

 

New SQZ file size- 17,300,000

 

Constructing thumbnail upon access takes almost no time. Don't know why this option is there.

 

Thank you, thank you, thank you,