Compacting your primary Clip Gallery catalog

If you have removed many imported clips from Clip Gallery, you may wish to compact your primary Clip Gallery catalog.

To compact your primary Clip Gallery catalog

1. Select any category or clip using the right mouse button (right-click).
2. On the shortcut menu, click Recover.
3. Click Compact.

Note Compacting your Clip Gallery database will not remove clips from your hard drive, but will only compact your primary Clip Gallery catalog, which contains the thumbnail-sized clip previews and other clip property data. If you want to remove installed clips from your computer to save space, you must uninstall them using the application they were installed with. If you want to remove user-imported clips you can delete them from Clip Gallery.

Compacting also performs many routine checks on your Clip Gallery data, attempting to repair any data corruption in the primary Clip Gallery catalog. If you experience problems such as corrupted data error messages or missing clips, using Compact may resolve the problem.