I was just talking to the boys upstairs and He says...

[Holly Bogossian]

I'm not sure how or what you are developing but I would think that 
you could make your application function with the 4 files and still 
make it transparent to the end user. As the developer, it would give 
you a lot more flexibility for the inevitable last minute changes 
that clients come up with.
--holly

>>I'd re-consider "only one". I think you'll find that over time, 
>>this might cause more maintenance problems for you.
>>
>
>I politely disagree, especially for a consumer product (don't know 
>what platform you are on, but on Macs this would be alien to most 
>users). I have one db file, but include a menu option to reindex the 
>database. My users find that quite natural. Finding a .idx file and 
>trashing it is OK for a developer or a savvy user, but not for 
>novices (IMHO, of course).
>
>Jon
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