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Re: Compacting database



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Bob Young wrote:
> I copied out several megs of expired contracts, and archived them elsewhere.
> Then I went into the portfolio and deleted all those symbols, together with
> the data.
> When I looked at the size of my .DAT file, I found it be exactly the same as
> before making all those deletions.

I *think* you need to copy out all the remaining contracts, delete the
.dat file, and paste the data back in. Gonna be hard to do if you're
short on drive space. Can someone verify that this is how you do it?

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   Dennis