It's probably irrelevant, but the chunk that already existed and was too big was for less than a week of June. >> Good idea, but changing the LOGS from Monthly to Weekly only >> changes the logs going forward. Previous log files remain as >> they were and are not changed. You would still have a huge file >> to deal with. > Well, yes, a completed notebook log is a completed notebook log, > but what if you have nonthly notebooks and in the middle of the > month change it to weekly, then change it back to monthly I bet that if I'd changed it to daily it wouldn't have broken up the existing 1/4 Meg file. -- Russ aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa??????????????????????????????????????Aaaaaa Well, of course the previous logs aaaaaaaa0a1remain as given *until* they are reindexed. So, you just force a new index for the new setup, do your business, then force it back to the old setup. No? Well, maybe no. The completed notebook logs are discrete, closed files, ain't they. If you start your list with monthly notebook and later decide a month is too long a period, so change it to weekly Well, sleep deprived (depraved?) that I am, I'm going to try it on one of my big international lists, see how it actually flys. Douglas __|~_ Russell A. Hunt __|~_)_ __)_|~_ Professor of English St. Thomas University )_ __)_|_)__ __) PHONE: (506) 452-0424 Fredericton, New Brunswick | )____) | FAX: (506) 450-9615 E3B 5G3 CANADA ___|____|____|____/ [log in to unmask] \ / ~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.StThomasU.ca/~hunt/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~