Hi there,
Until recently I used to put all my tracks (a few hundred of them) in one single instance of Basecamp. They were all arranged in lists and folders by country, region, etc. I also make regular backups (File > Backup) of the database; the backup file has grown to over 100 Mb. The backup process takes 5 to 10 minutes. (BTW, my computer's performance/specs are not the bottleneck in this).
So I decided to spread the tracks over several files, one per country. To achieve this I deleted the tracks of all countries except one, created a backup (say Country_1.backup), restored the original backup file (with all countries), repeated the process for country_2, and so on.
What surprises me, is that each backup file still has a size of about 100 Mb, regardless of the number of tracks in it. Even if I delete every item (waypoint, track, route, etc.) I am stuck with a backup file of 100 Mb.
I could step over this, if it weren't that switching from one country to another (which means restoring a backup file) takes at least 10 minutes.
Is this normal behaviour of Basecamp? If not, what can I do to solve the problem?