I'm glad I could help. Thanks for the grade, the points and the fun question.
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Browse All Topics My .QBW file is about 40MB. The associate .TLG file is only 704k. This seems right to me. I have a customer who is dead nuts the opposite. Their .QBW file is 1MB but their .TLG file is 1209MB.
I did a little reading on the .TLF Quickbooks file type and it appears to be the transaction log file. Why would theirs be four time the size for their data file? I don't think this is right is it?
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by: b0lsc0ttPosted on 2008-04-04 at 15:46:13ID: 21286204
I haven't messed with the files much and am just going by what I have read in the past and remember. I don't have a way to verify this now.
intuit.com /support/P ages/ Knowl edgeBaseAr ticle/1000 466 .
The TLG file could be bigger than the company file. A big file could cause a problem but isn't a cause for alarm or concern. I had to review some info but if you don't make regular backups with Quickbooks or if you aren't moving data around. Basically this would make it so the file isn't reset and would have a lot of transactions stored. There is some helpful info on this at http://support.quickbooks.
I don't know that you have to be concerned and it certainly can be bigger (" The .TLG file can be very large, much larger than the company file.") but if that means no backups are done (see the article) I would be concerned about that.
Let me know if you have a question or need more info.
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