Kirk: Many thanks for the real world experience.
I did the "loop through the records to update" after Apply to selection did nothing. And I tried Advanced Compact a few times. Looking back at this, my hunch is that the culprit was the disk file issues (that I found and repaired this AM using CHKDSK) played a role in 4D not moving the files into the expected location. Based on what you've reported, it sounds this feature is one that I'll have to pass on. -- Douglas von Roeder 949-336-2902 On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 1:06 PM, Kirk Brooks <[email protected]> wrote: > Doug, > This option is so appealing - storing large data chunks outside of the > actual data file. I tried it briefly in v13 something as well. I abandoned > it for two reasons. First, there's no option to exclude these files from > the backup. Second I wasn't confident about maintaining the links to the > external files within 4D if something got moved externally. > > In my case I was storing PDFs and photos (lots and lots of photos) so it > made sense to keep them outside the data file (current data file is ~2.25 > gigs, images and PDFs are ~100 gigs). The first time I tried that scheme > and then ran the backup it took a long time because it backed up everything > and my disk space was disappearing. > > I'm trying it again in v15 with some image thumbnails that would be stored > in the datafile anyway. I would be nice to be able to exclude selected > fields with external data from backup. > > Really sucks that stuff got corrupted. FWIW I seem to recall that if you > did make that change you wanted to loop through all the records and 'touch' > them to force a re-save. Cold comfort. > > -- > Kirk Brooks > San Francisco, CA > ======================= > ********************************************************************** > 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) > FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html > Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html > Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech > Unsub: mailto:[email protected] > ********************************************************************** > ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] **********************************************************************
