Deleting large numbers of items

[Jon Polish]

One of my databases is very close to 10GB. I have chosen to prune it and to my surprise the size did not decrease by the expected amount. I am using the beta (3.5) and have never done this size operation before, so I cannot be sure if it is a beta issue.

I deleted (Shift-Del) about 75% of the entries after transferring them to a new database for archiving (man, I WISH we could search across databases!). The recycle bin is empty and when I noticed the size (9.4GB), I compacted it. The size was about the same. I repaired the file using the database repair tool with the same result.

Are all the keywords retained in the database? Could that be what is causing the bloat?

Jon