Originally Posted by
OBP
Providing the data is there and accessible this is a good thing.
I do not have much experience with split databases, but I know that there can be "bloat" in databases which is usually removed during Compacting.
I have just split 2 databases and in both cases the Front End stayed the same size as the original complete database.
I then compacted the front end and it reduced from 5784Kb to 1376Kb, the back end is 1064KB.
However when I compacted a database first it was 3236Kb and then split it, the front end remained at 3236Kb and the back end was 836Kb.
I then compacted the front end and it reduced to 2824KB, so the total was now 3660Kb, larger than the original compacted database.
So the question was did you compact it prior to splitting?