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EightBitz
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Old March 6th, 2017, 11:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Silveras View Post
If the one realm was small, it may not make enough difference to notice at the GB level.

I noticed while working with Imports that importing relatively small amounts of data (originally exported from my own database) caused the database file to grow to many times the actual needed size (8x, 10x, 16x). Compressing the database recovers this "empty" space. (So my 1.5 GB realm that had grown to 8.5 GB through export-and-re-import was shrunk back to around 1.5 GB again.)

The developers have noted in the release notes that this is primarily a work-around for the import size growth issue while they work on a more permanent solution.
Yep. I imported a 6 MB file, and it grew my database by 1.2 GB. This was before the compression tool, so I compressed it in a round-about way. Syncing, closing RW, renaming the local DB file, then restarting Realm Works and syncing as if it were a new installation, rebuilding my local DB. Cut it down to about 290 MB.

But if you're not importing, I wouldn't expect to see much of a change.
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