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Termbase gets bigger when deleting entries and doing a reorganisation

Sara Klindworth

Hi all,

I deleted some entries and duplicates in a local MultiTerm termbase and noticed that the file size got larger instead of smaller. I then did a reorganisation because I thought this might reduce the size. Instead now the termbase is ten times bigger than it was in the beginning.

Does anyone have an idea how this works?

Thank you in advance.

Sara
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    Hi Sara,

    One of the things this does is rebuild the fuzzy indexes, so perhaps this is something that is long overdue and it added to the size of your termbase? Just guessing as it is indeed supposed to help reduce the size of your termbase but this would normally be the case if you were importing terms. So maybe, if you weren't importing terms this is the reason. Is it faster or has it also slowed down?

    If it's a relatively simple termbase can you export to Excel and then recreate it and see whether this reduces the size? The Glossary Converter on thre AppStore will make short work of this test.

    Regards

    Paul

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    Have had similar issues in SDL MultiTerm 2014 and 2015 - the file bloat used not to worry me where my HDD/SSD size was the only constraint, but since using it in-house, where we are limited in our storage space that is sync-ed constantly, this can become a problem. Have noticed that typically it jumps from about 35 Mb to 250 Mb. Only real solution I have found is to create a new TB with an identical definition, and export/import the current TB into the new one. Occasionally the syncing Programme (using Windows 8.1 Synchronisation Center) also turns a TB read only - due to a syncing conflict although that issue I have managed to solve with our syncing solution.
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    Hi Paul, hi Michael,

    Thank you for your answers. I don't know how, but now I have the termbase in original size again.
    I copied the big termbase to have a backup, opended the copied file to have a look at it and I am not sure what I did, but the next time I looked at the file size of the copy it was small again.

    Kind regards,
    Sara
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    Hi,

    I know this thread is several years old, but I just had the same issue and maybe my solution can help others also.

    The problem in my case was that the termbase was simultaneously open in MultiTerm Widget while I was trying to reorganize it. Once I closed the termbase in MultiTerm Widget, reorganizing reduced the file size back to normal.
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