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Size of Global MPT File?

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neo3114

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Feb 16, 2008
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Hi,

We seem to have some confusion of the expected size of the global MPT File.

Can anyone tell me what the estimated size should be and what this would fluctuate by in day to day use.

Or if there are any articles that would help, that would be great

Thanks in advance



 
Global MPT will change whenever you add/subtract things to/from it.

I know: not the incisive answer you were expecting. There's no easy way to tell because you didn't tell me what you are doing. If you create new macros they will go there; if you create new forms or filters or all sorts of stuff they can go there.

Tools | Organizer will open a display. In the lower left, you should see Global.MPT ... if you don't then click on the dropdown and select Global.MPT.

Now, cycle through each of the tabs and see if there is stuff in Global.MPT that should really be in a specific project and copy/delete as appropriate.

There is no estimated size. Spending time worrying about this is wasting time that would be better spent worrying what you have to do to bring a project schedule back on track.
 
Thanks for the info, that was a great help

However (you knew there would be one ;)) we are trying to get an understanding of the MPT / MPP files from a support point of view. The problem we seem to have is if a user creates a test.mpp and fills it with projects, then the size goes to around 7mb, if he removes all projects out. The file size remains at 7MB, but if he then saves it as an alternative file, it shrinks down to 125kb.

Any ideas on this, or if this is even an fault?
 
To the best of my knowledge, the size "change/nochange" (depending on how you save the project file) is the way it has always been.

Because of the way I work, I never experience the size problem because I am constantly saving to a new version name (it's one way of implementing a "multi-level undo" in P2003 -- and earlier versions).

There's never been a really good way to make sure everyone is using the same global.mpt. It is, in many ways, the same situation with Word and Normal.Dot.
 
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