Archive Tab

Use the options on the Archive tab to set preferences for an Archive Process.

personal options archive tab, explained below

Archive Directory

Specify the complete path to the default directory where you want to store Archive Files. To select from your system directories, click the browse button. If you do not specify a directory, the Data Directory specified on the General tab is used by default.

Archive Index Directory

Specify the complete path to the default directory where you want to store Archive Index Files. To select from your system directories, click the browse button. If you do not specify a directory, the Archive directory is used by default.

Archive Browse Index Directory

Specify the complete path to the default directory where you want to store Archive Index Browse Files. To select from your system directories, click the browse button. If you do not specify a directory, the Archive directory is used by default.

An Archive Index Browse File is created automatically whenever you join tables while browsing an Archive File. The Archive Index Browse File stores primary key and foreign key information to expedite the retrieval of data, and has an .abf extension, by default. Archive Index Browse Files are dynamically updated. For this reason, it is advisable to select a directory accessible to any user that may browse an Archive File.

Directory for Generated Subset Extract Files

Select either Data Directory or Temporary Work Directory to specify the location in which to store automatically generated subset Extract Files.

Note: Both directories are specified on the General tab.

Only Use Index to Perform Search

When search criteria is used to locate Archive Files containing specific data, Archive initially searches for matching rows in the corresponding Archive Index Files. If a match for the search criteria cannot be determined from the Archive Index information (or index information is not defined), Archive must check the Archive File to resolve the search. This check box is cleared by default to direct the Archive Process to automatically search Archive Files when a match cannot be determined from Archive Index Files.

When you select this check box, you direct the Archive Process to search Archive Index Files only. Use shortcut menu commands Resolve and Resolve All to complete the search when a match cannot be determined from Archive Index information.

Automatically Trim Search List

Select to automatically exclude all files other than possible matches when you use the Search command to locate and display Archive File names that contain specific data.

File Backup Device

Click the down arrow to select the default backup device from a drop‑down list of available backup devices.

Note: The drop-down list includes the backup devices selected on the Archive tab in Product Options (see the Installation and Configuration Guide ). If no backup devices are selected in Product Options, this option is unavailable.

The default backup device is automatically selected when you create a new Storage Profile.