>>>>truncate it or shrink it...
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>>Here's a very quick and very dirty way to truncate the log.
>>In database properties/option change recovery model to simple.
>>From the context menu select All Tasks/Shink Database.
>>Definitely not the text book way, but it's gotten me out of a few scrapes when the log file had become huge.
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>>>That worked...the part I was missing changing the recovery model....
>>>Thanks!
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>Glad it helped.
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>If you want to take advantage of the log in the future, change the reoovery model back to full and put in a backup procedure that will take care of shrinking the log for you.

...That's excatly what I've done.
Thanks again!