How do I increase the size of my Access database?

How do you increase the size of Access?

On the navigation pane on the left, click the table that contains the field size you want to change. Then click the Design view. In the table design grid, select the field for which you want to change the field size. On the Field properties pane, enter the new field size in the Field Size area on the General tab.

How do I increase database size limit?

To increase the size of a database Expand Databases, right-click the database to increase, and then click Properties. In Database Properties, select the Files page. To increase the size of an existing file, increase the value in the Initial Size (MB) column for the file.

What is maximum size for an Access database?

2 gigabytes, minus the space needed for system objects. Note: You can work around this size limitation by linking to tables in other Access databases. You can link to tables in multiple database files, each of which can be as large as 2GB.

How do I set maximum capacity in Access?

In the Field Properties pane, on the General tab, enter the new field size in the Field Size property. You can enter a value from 1 to 255. This number specifies the maximum number of characters that each value can have. For larger text fields, use the Memo data type (Long Text if using Access 2016).