[rmathes]

I do the backups because I like to see if I'm getting a size reduction. If you don't, you don't.

I find a 300k database behaves more crisply when I'm running errands and on 3G than a 1 meg database.

Yes, I've added tasks and projects in the last year since it was regularly compacting down to around 250k. But I'm also moving old data to archive as well. I certainly haven't tripled my number of projects and tasks so I don't understand the increase in size of the database.

plus when I had a dialogue a year ago with the tech ninjas on this subject (who recommended the procedure I describe above), they agreed that with no attachments, a database approaching a meg seems rather large. So I suspect it's not just usual usage creating this size. Something seems amiss.

hopefully someone from OmniGroup will see this and respond with their perspective.