Poker Tracker Version 2.0

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To use this feature, select either "Compact A Poker Database" or "Compact Hand History Database" from the Utilities Menu.

Poker Tracker uses Microsoft Access as it's back-end database. Access databases are notorious for taking up huge amounts of disk space, especially when importing large amounts of data, like Poker Tracker does, into them on a constant basis.

Because of this, it is important to compact your database often. Not only does this reduce the file size of the database, but it makes the database run at it's optimal speed.

Poker Tracker, by default, stores data in two database files. One file contains the complete text of each hand you have imported while the other contains the statistics obtained from that text. (Poker Tracker also gives you the ability to create multiple poker databases Maintaining Your Database for more detail). To compact your hand history database, select "Compact Hand History Database" from the Utilities Menu. To compact the statistics database, select "Compact A Poker Database" from the Utilities menu.

Each time you compact your databases, a backup copy of the database is always made first in the event of an error. These files also provide additional benefit of providing a backup if your main database ever gets corrupted.

Always, always make periodic backups of your database files! Having your computer crash is always traumatic and losing months of hand histories and player notes would also be difficult, not to mention the money you may lose while playing because you lost this information. So, always make periodic backups of your databases to zip drives or CD-R's or even floppy disks if you have to. We also recommend you save and backup your hand history files just to be safe.