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thanks for the reply.

it's really no more work than what you describe. Or, no more than an extra 30-60 seconds of work. It's essentially doing the same thing. Doing the file/export creates a compacted version, restoring it now provides a compacted new database. The before and after file backups are necessary in either scenario if you want to compare size before and after compaction.

and it gives me the same result. Still think I have a database that is larger than it should be. It's actually right around 700k with no attachments, which seems excessive. I use to be able to get it down to around a third of that. Doesn't make sense why it's this large.