Yesterday, I merged my main family file with one that I have built up to fill out the families of the biological parents of my grandfather (discovered he was adopted a few years ago).
The original main file was about 2.6 GB, with 26000+ people. The merged file was about 750 MB with 3900+ people. After the merge, I rebuilt the thumbnails so I didn't get generic image file icons in the multimedia panes. I then noticed that the size of the newly expanded main file had dropped to only 1.1 GB!!
I guess I am very curious to understand what happened in this merge process and thumbnail rebuild that caused my main file to lose over half of its size. Did something else get removed in this process? I should add, I was still on version 11.0.10 at the time I did this (updated to 11.0.11 this morning).
Any information in this regard would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
The original main file was about 2.6 GB, with 26000+ people. The merged file was about 750 MB with 3900+ people. After the merge, I rebuilt the thumbnails so I didn't get generic image file icons in the multimedia panes. I then noticed that the size of the newly expanded main file had dropped to only 1.1 GB!!
I guess I am very curious to understand what happened in this merge process and thumbnail rebuild that caused my main file to lose over half of its size. Did something else get removed in this process? I should add, I was still on version 11.0.10 at the time I did this (updated to 11.0.11 this morning).
Any information in this regard would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance!