To all: After rcving an email from Steve KB3MM - talking about a program called "Jetcomp" -- I went to the following webpage: http://www.accessdatabaserepair.com/jetcomp.htm and downloaded the program and it looks like we have now a choice of many ways to "compact" our MDB files .. You can download the Jetcomp program from the above LINK .. the download is "much smaller too" !! 73 Joe WA6AXE