Gargantuan File Size

[abscissa]

I made a DVD database for my home collection, based on the template provided with Filemaker. So far, I have entered just fewer than 140 of my DVDs into my database. I decided to include cover artwork in a container field, which is about a 40kb jpeg for each DVD.

However, my total file size for the database is more than 70MB! This means that each entry is using more than 1/2 MB for Title, Director, Country, Year, number, and 40 kb art. Obviously this is rediculous.

I have not, to my knowledge, enabled any indexing options or anything that should cause the file size to increase by such huge amounts.

Could anyone offer any suggestions before I go back to Access on XP?

[Reed]

Try using the file maintenance tools or saving a compressed copy to recover unused space... Otherwise, the best option would be to just keep the images in a folder, and just store file references in the database.

[Sanjai]

I would suggest to confirm the problem, try saving this file by someother name. Delete all the records except one and check the file size. See the difference in file size after adding a record. If it increases the size by approx. 0.5 mb then we are sure that nothing is wrong from our side and would work with Reed's solution.