Windows 10 - how to reduce size of Datastore.edb
ANSWER: defrag the database using esentutl.exe
Here's what I did
open up cmd as administrator
Here's what I did
open up cmd as administrator
(click windows start and type cmd, right click command prompt and choose run as administrator)
Then in commmand prompt, which should already be at C:\Windows\system32>
type
esentutl /d C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\DataStore\DataStore.edb
Here's the output from the program
Here's the output from the program
C:\WINDOWS\system32>esentutl /d C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\DataStore\DataStore.edb
Extensible Storage Engine Utilities for Microsoft(R) Windows(R)
Version 10.0
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
Initiating DEFRAGMENTATION mode...
Database: C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\DataStore\DataStore.edb
Defragmentation Status (% complete)
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|----|
...................................................
Moving '.\TEMPDFRG18068.EDB' to 'C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\DataStore\DataStore.edb'... DONE!
Moving '.\TEMPDFRG18068.jfm' to 'C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\DataStore\DataStore.jfm'... DONE!
Note:
It is recommended that you immediately perform a full backup
of this database. If you restore a backup made before the
defragmentation, the database will be rolled back to the state
it was in at the time of that backup.
Operation completed successfully in 10.797 seconds.
C:\WINDOWS\system32>
Now i have an extra 1024MB free - makes the difference on windows10!
