What is happening when you optimize your database in DT3

DEVONthink
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Optimize the database sounds good, but what does it actually do.

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As discussed in the built-in Help > Documentation > Menus > The File Menu…

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Thanks. I forgot the main principle: RTFM and underestimated your work. Sorry!

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No worries and no RTFM from me.
Just a friendly reminder of the helpful resource available in the Help.
:slight_smile:

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SO this “internal backup” then is deleted automatically once it has been optimized. correct?

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An Optimize will remove the older of the two metadata backups and write a new set, so you always have two rollback points.

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