On 6/9/05 10:55:36 PM, "Beth Rosengard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> So you're saying that the database is repaired but *not* compacted during a
> Rebuild?  Am I understanding you correctly?

I am saying that they are two completely different things. Compact is
something you should do when you want to get rid of unused space in your
database. It should leave your database with the exact same dataset that you
started with.

Rebuild is to be used when there is something wrong with the structure of
your database. It is a lossy action. It will fluch all of your IMAP caches,
it will not retain the links that have been defined, it will possbily not be
able to preserve all of your data and it might ressurrect data that was
previously deleted.

More than likely a rebuilt database will be smaller than a compacted one but
it goes about doing things in a much different manner. I would never rebuild
a production database unless I was sure it was damaged. I rebuild test
databases all the time though. :)


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