Why my MS Project file increase dramatically while i work on it by just adding new tasks or put the progress of the plan without any attachments

Question

My file increased to 70 MB i make the save as option and the file reduced to 3.95 MB then while i added 8 new tasks and put the plan progress it increased to 11 MB?

Answer 1

Hi KarimKhalil-8601,

The openspec-* tags are dedicated to supporting issues related to open specifications. You can find open specifications here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/

Since your question does not pertain to one of these specifications, I've removed the openspecs-office-fileformats tag and added the office-itpro tag. Hopefully this will get your post the proper attention.
You might also post your question here:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/project?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad=us

If I've misunderstood your question and you believe this is related to the Open Specifications documents, please clarify, providing the document name and section with which you have the question or issue.

Best regards,
Tom Jebo
Sr Escalation Engineer
Microsoft Open Specifications

Answer 2

@Karim Khalil

This may be related to file bloat.

You could refer to methods in “MS Project File Bloat – And How To Fix It” and "MS Project: Clearing file corruption and/or bloat", they may be helpful for you.
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