Optimize
This dialog copies branches of the currently opened tree to an existing tree or a new one.
This feature can be very useful as it:
- Allows you to extract selected items of the tree and save them into another one.
- Enables you to transfer content between trees.
- Gives you the opportunity to perform property filtering. For example, you may want to clean up the tree by removing some properties off the tree.
- After updating, adding, scanning and deleting items, a tree becomes fragmented. While writing items to the target tree, copy operation reorders, optimizes and packs them, so that access and update operations on the copied content perform faster. In addition, copied content usually occupies less disk space than the original, fragmented one. If you work hard with your trees, it is recommended to perform a copy/optimize operation every 2-4 months.
- An internal sorting is performed while writing items. This can improve performance of a new tree. Sorting is performed using the current sort rule set in the explorer.
Before copying select items in the list pane. All selected items, including their descendants, will be saved under the nodal item of the specified tree. The copy/optimize operation can be customized through the following settings:
- File name of the target tree. If it does not exist it will be created.
- Property filter. Properties of every item will be filtered according to this filter.
The lower section of the copy dialog shows you the progress of the tree currently being copied. You can interrupt this process at any moment.