Originally Posted by artie505
I just noticed that the same file that was 2.3 MB in Numbers is 53 KB in Excel.

And If you looked inside the Numbers file you will find it is, or at least used to be, a package file. (I vaguely recall reading somewhere that Apple had changed the internal format, perhaps to a database format) but in either case there are multiple files in the package. The reported file size is the size of the allocated sectors and each file gets a separate sector, but the actual data content is often significantly less.


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