On 7/31/12 10:30 AM, Ant wrote:
> On 7/25/2012 8:35 PM PT, Ant typed:
> 
>>> The terms 'compressed' and 'optimized' are questionable here.  The
>>> database is rebuilt;  the data is compressed within it, but the file
>>> size doesn't change, so you don't gain any disk space.  Also,
>>> rebuilding slows some db operations, so doing it too often will hurt
>>> performance somewhat.
>>>
>>> You could change the value of places.last_vacuum every day to
>>> constantly fool SeaMonkey into thinking the database hasn't been
>>> rebuilt in over a month, which should trigger frequent rebuilding.  That
>>> would be a bad idea, but if you want to do it anyway, it's measured in
>>> milliseconds.
>>
>> Thanks. Bummer that it doesn't compress/shrink. :(
> 
> I just noticed my places.sqlite has grown 20 MB after seventeen days. 
> Maybe I should not use 30 days of history from PrefBar's ExpireHistory 
> button since it can grow up over 30 MB within 30 days. :(
> 

On the Expire History button, you can select a number of days different
from 30.  Or you can right-click on your PrefBar toolbar, select
Customize Prefbar, select Expire History, right-click, and select Edit.
 Select the onClick tab of the Button window and change the 30 to some
other number of days.

-- 

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<http://www.rossde.com/>.

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