Okay so I guess I am not clear on the difference. I kinda thought they were one in the same. So yes I would like to condense detail from like 1.1.14 and prior. I don't like the idea of deleting prior info at all, but if I backed it up before deleting it (it being like 2004-2014) would I be able to open it later? It seems like it would have to be opened with a compatable version of QB, which may not be available at the time we need to open it back up. Have you experienced this concern before or am I an information pack rat that is worried about losing something I will not need anyway?

And yes we have a TON of information on vendor lists and estimates that we haven't used and will never need but can not be deleted becasue they have been used at some point in the last 15 years. This has made our company file ginormous, and takes up all the space on our server.