[Toadling]

I see a fair degree of fluctuation in mine, depending on how many changes I make in any given day, ranging from 240 KB to as much as 800 or 900 KB.

So simply looking at just the max number of files or the file size isn't necessarily giving you the whole story. What you should look for is fluctuation - either the number of files in the package going up and down, or the total package size going up and down. The key here being "down". In other words, if either the number of files or package size goes down on occasion, then you're probably OK and system is "auto-coalescing".

Another thing you can do is inspect the names of the files inside the package. Each file name begins with a GMT timestamp. If the names are different over a period of days, then old transactions are likely getting "smooshed" and new ones created as you make changes to your data.

-Dennis