Thank you.

Tried this again with a new backup path to and ensured that the maintenance plan is using BAK and not .BAK

still does not work. very...

I ended up stopping the Replication Push job at the publisher, detached the DB (subscriber), moved the files, reattached the DB and then re enabled the the replication push...

Thank you Gail!

I'm thinking I should just move the MDF file using detach/attach and be done with it : )

I do not have an...

Thanks. That is how I read it too!

Eugene Elutin (2/6/2014)

Do you Active Directory groups and user?...

Thanks for all the help.

We do not have SSIS installed so that is not an option at this point

Thank you for the reply. I guess my question was a little confusing. What I am unclear about is when you install SSAS and SSRS on a...

Thank you all for your insight!!!! I will script out all object and move my data into a new Database rather than shrink and risk the fragmentation.

I do not anticiapate that the Database will grow alot from this point. They spent quite a bit of time loading Data (with the Vendors help) while in Development...

Thank you!!

Thanks Gail. I will give simple recoery mode a shot.

any hints for how or what to monitor when i have them kick off their jobs again?

Turns out that there is maintenance happening that is kicked off by the application. I have more digging to do but i believe it is loads and index...

The Mystery is this is an out of the box App that I am told they are not using at the time.

Time to talk to the Vendor for the...

I guess that is my problem - interpreting the Profiler Trace that I did while the TLOG was growing unexpectedly.

Like I said, this application is idle...

exactly. I would like to reclaim some of the space and then schedule regular Tlog backups. That is the plan. thank you!!