I designed a letter with several pictures (not embedded). The picture files themselves are only 20kb total for all of them but saving the report resulted in a bloating of the .FPT file to over 2Gb. Now when I run a backup the FPT file is not included in the backup. This scares me to death because I have already lost to letters mysteriously in this project and now it appears if it happens again, I won't be able to recover using the backup. Obviously at the point I am manually copying the file just to be sure.
I thought letters and reports were part of the .DDD file but it is the .FPT file that has expanded. It is suposed to be related to memo fields in the table of which I have one in my table but the table data has not changed. 856 records since I started developing an still 856 records. Very few of the memo fields have any data. The .FPT file is selected in the files to backup in the backup settings!
Is there a known issue where files are not backed up if they get too big? And why would the .FPT file bloat when the dbf is not changing. I packed the database and the .FPT got bigger not smaller. See next paragraph.
I noticed the backup operation happening very quickly which prompted me to check what was being backed up because before it took a little time to give back control of the IDE. Before creating the letter the .FPT was being backed up as verified in eariler incremental backups. It was backed up when it was 1.5 Gb in size. After packing the database it ballooned up to just over 2Gb and at this point stopped getting backed up. I removed all images from the letter, saved and .FPT file is still at 2Gb and won’t backup. I duplicated the letter without the images, deleted the old one and renamed the new with the same name and the .FPT is still 2Gb and won’t backup. I compacted the database and the .FPT file is still 2Gb and won’t backup.
It also takes forever to FTP during publishing. Don’t understand why it should be that big? Surely we are able to make letters and reports in alpha without all this bloat.
Thanks for any thoughts.
I thought letters and reports were part of the .DDD file but it is the .FPT file that has expanded. It is suposed to be related to memo fields in the table of which I have one in my table but the table data has not changed. 856 records since I started developing an still 856 records. Very few of the memo fields have any data. The .FPT file is selected in the files to backup in the backup settings!
Is there a known issue where files are not backed up if they get too big? And why would the .FPT file bloat when the dbf is not changing. I packed the database and the .FPT got bigger not smaller. See next paragraph.
I noticed the backup operation happening very quickly which prompted me to check what was being backed up because before it took a little time to give back control of the IDE. Before creating the letter the .FPT was being backed up as verified in eariler incremental backups. It was backed up when it was 1.5 Gb in size. After packing the database it ballooned up to just over 2Gb and at this point stopped getting backed up. I removed all images from the letter, saved and .FPT file is still at 2Gb and won’t backup. I duplicated the letter without the images, deleted the old one and renamed the new with the same name and the .FPT is still 2Gb and won’t backup. I compacted the database and the .FPT file is still 2Gb and won’t backup.
It also takes forever to FTP during publishing. Don’t understand why it should be that big? Surely we are able to make letters and reports in alpha without all this bloat.
Thanks for any thoughts.
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