Compact doesnt work

We have upgraded from 5.10 to 6.02CF2 and all works fine but only the compact database does not what he should do!

Now, if i give the command over the db properties to compact it, all fine - after is finished the size are the same !?

If i do this over the console like: load compact mail\myfile.nsf … server does his job after this comes a message like this:

“04.12.2003 19:40:53 Compacted MAIL\myfile.nsf , 0K bytes recovered (0%)”

… hmm…the mailbox is on the properties only used with 15%

What should i do to compact the mailboxes , we have some users with only what 10% used from the db (400 User).

thanks in advance for any help

Volkan Senguel

Subject: Try some options (like -B or -C)…

Purpose: Compacts one or more database(s).Usage: Load COMPACT [path] [options]…

[path]: One database, one folder (recurses), or omitted (all, recurses).

[options]:

-A Archive and delete documents without compacting.

-a Archive and delete documents, then compact database.

-B Recover space and reduce file size (inplace-style).

-b Recover space without reducing file size (inplace-style).

-C Copy-style compaction.

-D Discard view indexes (copy-style).

-e No-execute: Show effective arguments only, since some arguments

       affect others.

-F Enable ‘Document table bitmap optimization’ database property

       (copy-style).

-f Disable ‘Document table bitmap optimization’ database property

       (copy-style).

-H Enable ’ Don’t support specialized response hierarchy’ database

       property (copy-style).

-h Disable ‘Don’t support specialized response hierarchy’ database

       property (copy-style).

-i Ignore errors (for copy-style only).

-j Just Delete (must specify -a or -A to be valid).

-K Enable large UNK table (>64 KB).

-k Disable large UNK table (>64 KB).

-L Don’t lock users out during compaction (for copy-style only).

-M Set maximum database size to 4 GB.

-o Check for overlapping objects.

-R Revert to previous ODS format (e.g. on an R5 system,

       keep/convert back to R4 format).

-S nnnK Compact database if unused space estimate >= nnn KB.

-S nnnM Compact database if unused space estimate >= nnn MB.

-S nn Compact database if unused space estimate >= nn percent.

-T Enable transaction logging.

-t Disable transaction logging.

-U Enable ‘Don’t maintain unused marks’ database property.

-u Disable ‘Don’t maintain unused marks’ database property.

-V Make views big (do not compress indexes).

-v Make views small (compress indexes).

-Y Recurse through subdirectories (default)

-y Do not recurse through subdirectories

Subject: RE: Try some options (like -B or -C)…

Thanks Bill, i have tryed with the option -B and the DB was shrinked abot 25% only.

Before the compact was the mailbox size 166MB, and after the shrink is now 116MB and used 77%.

On the R5 Server was the unused space after the compact always 0% or 1%.

I have also tested other parameters with no realy good success.

thanks

Volkan