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Gary,
Ah very clever of him. Too bad he didn't do one for Ts2ki as regular
defragging doesn't do much for the .dat files.
Jimmy
Thursday, August 7, 2003, 3:43:43 PM, you wrote:
>> What does UNFRAG.EXE do? I've see the name before but though it was
>> simply a defragger. Or point me to a site that tells me about it.
GF> It makes sure the data ***inside the TS database*** is arranged
GF> in a sensible and non-fragmented way. This means TS has to do
GF> less gymnastics to find the data inside its database. The less
GF> work you can make TS do, the better.
GF> It doesn't do anything to the database file itself, so Windows
GF> may have fragmented the file all over the disk, but TS isn't
GF> aware of that. It's a good idea to defrag your disk too, so both
GF> the data inside the database AND the database file itself are
GF> cleaned up.
GF> UNFRAG.EXE only works on TS4 databases. I think Bob was thinking
GF> of doing one for TS2k but I don't know if he ever got to it.
GF> Gary
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Jimmy Snowden
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