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From: Debra Mallett <>
Subject: Re: TMG-L: Optimize speed
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 1999 13:53:50 -0400


Mitch,

Try this. I am assuming you are running Windows. Check to see if "Find Fast" is
running in the background. You can check by:

- closing TMG
- press Ctrl-Alt-Delete to get the "Close Program" window
- look for Find Fast in the list
- if you see it, highlight it
- press "End Task"

Then try your optimize again. The problem with "Find Fast" is that it
continually accesses the hard drive. In the usual optimize operation, the
process needs to pull in your data set from all over the disc and then find a
large clean space on the disc to rewrite it to. Each time Find Fast accesses the
hard drive, the Optimize process thinks something has changed and has to start
all over again. Now I am speaking from experience with regular optimizing, I
haven't tried the TMG optimize feature but I would guess it would work the same
way.

If it's still taking a long time, there may be another program accessing the hard
drive in the background. You can close other things in that "Close Program"
window. But don't close "Explorer" or "Systray". Anything you close will just
start up again the next time you exit Windows and restart. Another thing that
may access the hard drive is the "Task Scheduler" (bottom right of screen).
Right click on it and tell it to "pause". Also it probably wouldn't hurt to
disable any virus software you may have running. Usually "optimizing" requires
everything else to be quiet - so to speak.

HTH,
Deb Mallett

"Mitchel D. Schwartz" wrote:

> I'm using TMG, Dos version, with 50,000 names, on a 200MHz Pentium. The
> Optimizing of the database has run for over ten hours and is still
> working on "place names". Is this normal?
> Mitch

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