The DTPro Office Manual says about the database rebuilding the following:
I have a database with many indexed documents and less (but also many) rtf and txt documents which were created partially from indexed pdfs and partially created “freshly”.
… and I have loads of tags (also nested hierarchically in groups) assigned to the documents.
… I dont exactly understand what the hint “you may lose some meta data…” means in reality…
Can anybody help?
My problem is (as described in many recent posts here):
I had hundreds of indexed documents which should reside in their original directory structure and should be replicated in other groups.
I don’t know exactly what I did wrong, but many of those documents suddenly had any replicants any more and did only exist in the new groups (and not in their original structure).
Example:
I had a folders “pdf_catalog” which I had indexed.
And in DTPro the indexed folder had only 5xxx documents, but in reality >6000, so there were some missing…
I indexed it again (Ctrl-Alt-dragged it to another tmp group in the DB) and removed the original indexed directory in the DB.
But now my DB has grown from 8,13 GB to 16,6 GB.
(and the backups which I have created in the meantime during the process of changing and re-structuring the database are only about 4 GB big…).
So I wonder where the additional 4,x GB came from and how I can get rid of them.
So the question is, how can I get rid of this duplicate information and duplicate disk usage.
[edit:]
I checked the contents of the 2 database packages (from the backup and the new one) and the difference comes from a Files.noindex folder which grew from 1,2 to 7 GB!
I did a check for unique files with Tidy Up and there are many JPG and PDF files which are new in the new database.
I just picked one example (don’t know if it’s representative), but it is a pdf which is only indexed, but a copy of it exists in the database.
Is that normal?
Kind regards
Martin