When you delete unwanted records from your databases, the database size does not automatically return to its smaller size, therefore allowing you to have the freed memory at your disposal to use again. The "Free Database Space" option allows for your database to shrink back to its smallest size possible at that time, so you have the most space you possibly can left in your database. To answer your question, this option frees all actual databases, that is the Email Folders (the database containing your emails and email folders) and Address List (your KeyList database that stores your address entries). It's found not only under the KeyMail Setup Menu, but also under the KeyList Menu. Also, if you have created customized databases in KeyList and manipulate these (add, look up, and delete records from them, noting that deleting will let you reclaim the space formerly taken up only if you Free it) as I do, these will be freed as well. With the Flash Disk, once you delete something from the drive itself, that space should be automatically freed. That is, the size of your Flash Disk will automatically increase by the amount of the file deleted, so you could use that space readily, and there is nothing to be freed. Just in case the last two sentences sounded a bit confusing, here's a quick example: your Flash Disk has 7 megabytes left, and after you delete a file which is 1 megabyte in length, your drive will automatically now have 8 megabytes free, and there is no option to "free" the Flash Disk because it doesn't require this. Note that if you delete the actual files that contain your database records, you don't have to free database space as these are treated like files, and will therefore automatically free up the space of their size for your use. The Free Database Space only applies when you are working in these databases (manipulating records within the KeyMail and KeyList programs themselves and therefore deleting parts of the database by Deleting A Record or email, as opposed to deleting the entire database file from such places as the File Manager menu and others). One exercise of the Free Database Space option from any of the places where it's found will free up all databases; in other words, you don't have to do it once for KeyMail and another for KeyList. FYI, if you want to entirely delete a database to make it nonexistent in your system, such as wanting to get rid of a customized database, you have to delete both the KeyList definition file you created for it and the file with its name and a COULDB extension which contains all the records you've entered in the database. HTH. Maria
