That explains it perfectly, Linda. Judy in Ocala On Aug 19, 2011, at 2:52 PM, "Linda H Gutierrez" <lilacarlhg@amnet.co.cr> wrote: > Tom, > > Compacting doesn't do anything to the information in your file. It will not > change anything or remove anything. > > As I understand it, the way FTM works, each time we make a deletion or other > change in our file, unused space is created in the file. If you delete a > photo and then add another, the new photo does not take up the space used by > the one that was deleted. So compacting takes all that unused space and > removes it from the file. > > So the more work you do in your file before you compact it, the higher the > percentage of the compact operation. > > I hope that makes sense. :) > > > Linda > in Costa Rica > Monroe County, New York Genealogy > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~monroenys > Monroe County, New York History > http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~monroenys > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Herson > Sent: Friday, 19 August, 2011 12:25 PM > To: ftm-tech@rootsweb.com > Subject: [FTM-TECH] Compacting > > Because I don't do it on a regular basis, I usually compact my file when > someone mentions it, as Linda just did. I was surprised to see that the fle > was reduced by 50.5% That's pretty scary. How could that be? Nothing seems > to be missing with regard to the number of people, marraiges, etc. > > Tom Herson > Ithaca. NY > > > ********************************** > List information page > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html > > Online Support for Family Tree Maker > Version 16 and earlier > http://pastftm.custhelp.com/ > > Version 2008 - 2011 > http://ftm.custhelp.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FTM-TECH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thank you, Judy! Linda in Costa Rica Monroe County, New York Genealogy http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~monroenys Monroe County, New York History http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~monroenys -----Original Message----- From: Judy in Ocala Sent: Friday, 19 August, 2011 1:51 PM To: ftm-tech@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] Compacting That explains it perfectly, Linda. Judy in Ocala On Aug 19, 2011, at 2:52 PM, "Linda H Gutierrez" <lilacarlhg@amnet.co.cr> wrote: > Tom, > > Compacting doesn't do anything to the information in your file. It will > not > change anything or remove anything. > > As I understand it, the way FTM works, each time we make a deletion or > other > change in our file, unused space is created in the file. If you delete a > photo and then add another, the new photo does not take up the space used > by > the one that was deleted. So compacting takes all that unused space and > removes it from the file. > > So the more work you do in your file before you compact it, the higher the > percentage of the compact operation. > > I hope that makes sense. :)