Newbie question record deletion

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Running a program that archives files and rmoves the information from t
.mdb file, however after completion the .mdb file does not decrease i
size??
Opened the .mdb file in access and deleted 10,000 records from 30,00
records, however the .mdb file is still the same size??
Do not know anything about databas. Can anyone help.
thanks
jm
 
Try to run "Compact and repaire"!

Open the db select "Tool/Databasetool/Compact and repaire". Before doing
this always make a backup of your original db which you stores untill you
see that everything works the way it sopose and you havn´t lost any data!

// Niklas
 

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