Very long wait with mass delete.

[Gregory_I]

I have a Photo Catalog database with 40k records (most of which are container/photo fields). The file is about 11 gigs. To cut down on hard drive space I am in the process of deleting 20k records. So far the delete script has been running for 4 days and only about 9k records have been deleted so far. Is this a normal amoount of time? Can this process be sped up?

[FestiveEmbalmer]

Did you store the photos/files inside of your FM containers or just references?

I would think that it would make a huge difference when it comes to that level of mass deletion.

[Vaughan]

You're using FMP 7. It might be faster in FMP 8.0 or later.

[IdealData]

Maybe clone and import would be still faster.