file size (and data loss?)

[William Alba]

I just upgraded from Reunion 12 to Reunion 14 -- a necessity, because Reunion 12 was crashing on my MacBook Air running the latest macOS (15.5). For the longest time on my previous MacBook Pro I was running an antiquated OS (10.13).

Anyhow, I was surprised that, after conversion, the size of my family file had changed from 35,663,853 bytes (35.9 MB on disk) to only 4,977,562 bytes (5.2 MB on disk).

Is this a feature? Could Reunion 14 be that much more efficient at storage? Or should I be concerned that I might have lost some data somewhere?

[Seagram]

One common reason for a dramatic drop in file size is related to how images and media are stored. If your Reunion 12 file included embedded images or media and the Reunion 14 upgrade process excluded them the resulting file would be much smaller.

[William Alba]

Thank you for your reply, Seagram. As with many people in the US, I enjoyed a long weekend. I hope you are able to find some time to relax too.

My family tree is not media intensive. Based on clicking on the sidebar, both the Reunion 12 and Reunion 14 versions contain 919 people but only 36 thumbnail pictures. However, I am not sure if clicking around the sidebar on (Thumbnails and People) is the best way to determine whether all my data has migrated properly.

What is the best practice for checking whether media and other information has been preserved between files, whether these files belong to the same version of Reunion or not?