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SnTT: Show-and-Tell Thursdays: Local scheduled compaction of your desktop or laptop

by Chris Miller at 07:15:00 AM on Thursday, March 16th, 2006

I manually run ncompact with the -B flag from time to time locally to recover whitespace. I then pondered why this cannot be done on schedule, as the server does. Your local client has a hidden ($Programs) view. Here is the image .....

Image:SnTT: Show-and-Tell Thursdays: Local scheduled compaction of your desktop or laptop

So what do we do from there? We open designer to see if there is a hidden Program form we can expose. None there so off to the address book template.

I grab the Server\Program form and paste it into the local names.nsf database. It is necessary to remove the HTMLAttributes field as that cannot be found locally, we well as the Last Modified field.

I then use the Create - Server - Program menu to create a document to compact each night at 2am with the -B flag. Make sure you close out of all your databases on the client. I also unhid the view for easy manipulation.

So the log the next morning shows....

03/14/2006 02:00:01 AM Compacting admin\xxxx.nsf (Domino R5 Admin Book)
03/14/2006 02:00:02 AM Releasing unused storage in database admin\xxxx.nsf...
03/14/2006 02:00:03 AM Compacted admin\xxxx.nsf, 896K bytes recovered (24%)
03/14/2006 02:00:03 AM Compacting admin\xxxxxxxx.nsf ()
03/14/2006 02:00:03 AM Releasing unused storage in database admin\xxxxxxxx.nsf...

Right on time! But leave the client up and databases closed as a side note.

Show-N-Tell Thursday

Location: St. Louis, MO

Category: Domino 7 Show-N-Tell Thursday
Tags :SNTT Show-N-Tell Thursday compact View blog reactions

1) Nicely done.
Created by Jerry Glover at 3/16/2006 10:12:45 AM email | website

Good reminder that the client and the server still share tons of code and many things will work in both places.

2)
Created by Alan Lepofsky at 3/16/2006 11:54:56 AM email | website

Very cool, and idea if it will compact the desktop and bookmark files, or are they "in use"?

3) OK, now that is just weird . . . but cool
Created by Jack Dausman at 3/17/2006 5:40:19 PM email | website

Chris, I have to think about the best way to deploy your hint. I've gotten used to a .bat file that calls the ncompact, so the users can compact as they need to--but scheduling it is very useful.

Thanks

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