Stack file size

[Lars Brehmer]

I've been searching the list archives, but can't seem to find an answer 
for this:

A fairly intricate foreign language vocabulary trainer I've been 
working on for quite some time was getting really bloated, so I started 
to figure out why.  The main cause turned out to be the fact that I had 
2 profiles, to make the interface bilingual.  This literally doubled 
the file size and wasn't really necessary, so I went back to just a 
Master profile.  At the same time I noticed that when I opened the 
standalone data stacks in Rev to make changes, just navigating around 
increased the file size!  No new cards or anything, just moving between 
cards and stacks.  I tested this out in the standalone, and after a 
session with no new cards, the data stack did indeed stay the same 
size.  But when I opened it in Rev and made about 100 button clicks 
(next card, open substack, open sub-substack, next card, close 
substack, etc) the stack file size had grown by 3 k, even though I 
compacted it and saved it from the menu.  I'll now try to open it in 
Rev as litttle as possible, but in the last few weeks I did quite a bit 
of work on it back in Rev and have absolutely no idea how much the file 
grew because of this.

Does anyone know why the file size grows without me adding anything to 
it, and if so is there any way around this or anyway to get rid of the 
bloat this seems to have caused?

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Lars Brehmer
Eestimaa Keeletarkvara
Tallinn, Eesti

Modern foreign language vocabulary
learning software for the Mac and PC
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