User Guide

Maintaining the database
It is recommended that you periodically maintain the database to free hard disk
drive space and enhance database performance.
To maintain the database:
Click Tools | Database | Maintenance.
About maintaining the database
The Database Maintenance dialog box displays a tree of folders on your hard disk
drive. Each folder contains database information and is represented by an icon.
This icon represents folders that contain cached thumbnails.
This icon represents folders that have been changed without a
database update. For example, a folder was renamed or moved. It is
recommended that you optimize the database.
This icon represents folders that contain cached thumbnails and
have been changed without a database update. It is recommended
that you optimize the database.
Database maintenance buttons
You can use the Database Maintenance dialog box buttons to perform mainte-
nance tasks on selected folders.
Remove Orphan Removes database information for
Folders folders that no longer exist on your
system
Remove Database Removes all database information and
Information and cached thumbnails from the
Thumbnails selected folder
Remove Thumbnails Removes all cached thumbnails from the
selected folder
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