You can compact from the console.

Procedure

1. From the Domino Administrator, on the Server (first) pane, select the server on which to run Compact. To expand the pane, click the servers icon.

2. Click the Server - Status tab.

3. Click Console.

4. Enter the following command in one of the following ways: 1) in the command line at the end of the console, and then press ENTER or 2) directly at the console on a server:

Load compact databasepathoptions

where databasepath specifies the files to compact

and options are Compact command-line options.

The following table illustrates how you can use databasepath to specify databases, folders, and subfolders.

Table 1. databasepath examples

To compact	Example command	Files compacted
A specific database in the Domino® data folder	Load compact SALES.NSF	DATA\SALES.NSF
All the databases in a folder relative to the Domino data folder	Load compact SALES	DATA\SALES\all databases
A specific database in a folder relative to the Domino data folder	Load compact SALES\USER1.NSF	DATA\SALES\USER1.NSF
All the files specified in a .IND file created in the Domino data folder Note: If you are using the -T flag to specify a view, Indirect files (.IND) cannot be used.	Load compact WEEKLY.IND where WEEKLY.IND contains: SALES.NSF DEV.NSF SALES\USER1.NSF SALES\NEW	DATA\SALES.NSF DATA\DEV.NSF DATA\SALES\USER1.NSF DATA\SALES\NEW\all databases

Related concepts
Compacting databases

Related tasks
Ways to compact databases

Related reference
Compact options

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