chaspear

I'm running legacy version 6.25.2.9198 (309198) Public (CE Build ce-62.6.10954). I started getting the warning that I'm exceeding my monthly (free) allowance of 60meg/month. I do have a few LARGE notes that I update regularly, so need to remove (archive) most of the few large notes I have so I can continue adding more info to those, without re-saving 99% of the info in those large notes each time I enter more data and hit “save,” this is likely the reason I'm hitting my limits. When I EXPORTED my current notes (just one notebook-exported “all notes”) to an ENEX format for a permanent archival backup, the size of that file is around 19 Meg in size, BUT when I look at my actual database files in USER\chas\documents\evernote\databases, I see that just my .exb file is over 223 Meg in size . . . Running Win 8.1 pro 64 with plenty of RAM and storage space. How can the 19 Meg file be a full backup of my 223Meg active file? Something doesn't make sense, have reviewed several help pages, can't see anything I'm doing wrong (simple process in legacy version). Any help understanding what's happening, but MORE IMPORTANTLY, how to do a full archival backup of my notebook (notes) would be appreciated. Think I may need to do a full backup to web pages JUST IN CASE and see how large/many pages that turns out to be. Thanks for any help Chas