SHRINK V8 CLIENT.DAT FILE SIZE

By default deleted customer records are kept in the client.dat and the file continues to grow. This is a problem for large clients since 2gb is the file size limit.

To have Retail Pro discard all the deleted records and compile a new file with just active records, do the following:

Open DVS

Select REPAIR and open the client.dat file

EDIT any field on a deleted record

Select FILE > SAVE and then select NO to have Retail Pro repair the blank free space records.

REINDEX

The new client.dat should be much smaller now.

Karen Page

As VP of Sales & Marketing, Karen has been helping to break sales records since 1994! That’s almost 30 years of award-winning sales, helping to build Big Hairy Dog as a leading POS Software and Service provider…worldwide. She has a degree in fine arts (with a minor in business) from the University of Oregon, and with three amazing children and saint of a husband, Karen is still loving life in the Northwest—where she works from home in the Portland, Oregon area.

Her favorite pastime is tailgating at college football games with friends and family. Go Ducks!

Karen Page

As VP of Sales & Marketing, Karen has been helping to break sales records since 1994! That’s 25 years of award-winning sales, helping to build Big Hairy Dog as a leading POS Software and Service provider…worldwide. She has a degree in fine arts (with a minor in business) from the University of Oregon, and with three amazing children and saint of a husband, Karen is still loving life in the Northwest—where she works from home in the Portland, Oregon area.

Her favorite pastime is tailgating at college football games with friends and family. Go Ducks!