"Compact" and "Save"

[Henrik in Oslo]

On the File menu are two choices I am uncertain wether I ought to use: 

• "Save" I use sometimes, thinking I will loose less if a crash happens
  
• "Compact" I have never used. I associate it with some problems reported in this Discussion group. Should I use it? Why? When? 
  

Thanks in advance! 

/ H

[Peter Bienstman]

On 09/09/2012 04:45 PM, Henrik in Oslo wrote:
> On the File menu are two choices I am uncertain wether I ought to use:
>

> * "Save" I use sometimes, thinking I will loose less if a crash happens

If you really want to make sure you don't loose anything, set 'autosave
after x cards' to 1, but that will be slightly slower though.

> * "Compact" I have never used. I associate it with some problems

> reported in this Discussion group. Should I use it? Why? When?

It cleans up empty space in the database (which you will get after
deleting a large number of cards) and finds media files which are not
used by the database.

Cheers,

Peter