I have been removing some of the Alt-Names that came with a Gedcom. I removed about 30 at the most. Many of them were nicknames. I like the way RM handles those. After removing the Alt-Names I thought I should go through the Database tools. Everything was fine until I got to Compacting. There was an error message something about a report open, but I don't have any reports open. I closed everything down until the backup then used the database tools. It says it can take a long time for a large database. This has 3,3??. I don't think that is large enough to take that long at compacting. Will it be OK to just down the compacting or should I let it run overnight? Nancy
Compacting for an extended period of time seems a little strange. I have a 239,000 person database, and I compact quite frequently. I have never timed the process, but I do not think it ever took longer than one or two minutes (probably less), about the same for indexing. I have used all versions of RM except version 4. As I recall, I never used RM4, because -- if I am remembering correctly-- back that far, it ran much slower than version 3 did. Version 5 was great. I am wondering about the gedcom -- Did it come from a different program that used unusual features not in RootsMagic? Hopefully someone will provide an explanation. -----Original Message----- From: nancy wright via Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2016 7:24 PM To: rootsmagic-users@rootsweb.com Subject: [RMagic] Compacting for over an hour I have been removing some of the Alt-Names that came with a Gedcom. I removed about 30 at the most. Many of them were nicknames. I like the way RM handles those. After removing the Alt-Names I thought I should go through the Database tools. Everything was fine until I got to Compacting. There was an error message something about a report open, but I don't have any reports open. I closed everything down until the backup then used the database tools. It says it can take a long time for a large database. This has 3,3??. I don't think that is large enough to take that long at compacting. Will it be OK to just down the compacting or should I let it run overnight? Nancy