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How decrease size of bookmarks.couch

Asked by David Ayers

on Lucid I have bindwood 1.0.4-0ubuntu1 installed.

My bookmarks.couch file is 4035416166 (3,8 GB) large.

How would that file be optmized, as I'm sure it has some issue since I only have a few bookmarks yet some are RSS feeds.?

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#1

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+source/bindwood/+bug/443121/comments/48
http://www.linux-archive.org/ubuntu-user/525654-huge-bookmarks-couch-filesize.html

btw. bindwood can be removed since it's a transitional dummy package.
http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/bindwood

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David Ayers (ayers) said : 		#2

Thanks for the pointer to the bug report!
I've reopened it and I'll be tracking the issue there.

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Brian Dunnette (bdunnette) said : 		#3

You can reduce the size of bindwood's database by:

* Connecting to your local desktopcouch database (by browsing to /home/USERNAME/.local/share/desktop-couch/couchdb.html)
* Opening the bookmarks database
* Clicking the Compact & Cleanup link, selecting Compact Database, and clicking Run (this can take a while - you can keep track of its progress via the Status link to the right)

Same process works for any other desktopcouch database (e.g. gwibber-messages...)

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David Ayers (ayers) said : 		#4

Thanks Brian!
That has solved my issue!

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David Robert Lewis (afrodeity) said : 		#5

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