Compressing Your Data

Use the Compress Data option from the File Maintenance window to return the unused disk space (created when you have deleted your customer, supplier, nominal, bank and product records) as free space. We recommend that you use this option if you have deleted a large volume of data.

To compress your data files

• Ensure you have taken at least one backup of your data.
• Click the appropriate shortcut button from the Year End option. Alternatively, open the File menu and choose Maintenance.
• Click Compress. The Compress Data Files window appears.
• To compress all data files, select the 'Compress All Data Files' check box. If you clear this check box, you can select the particular data files that you want to compress.
• To continue with the compression, click Compress. To exit without compressing, click Close.
  

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