What are some guidelines for safe archiving?
Q. What exactly does the Archive/Purge utility do? The Archive/Purge utility permanently removes records from your database. The utility lets you select A/P invoices, A/R invoices, checks, client payments, job tickets, purchase orders, and time sheets that are either paid or closed by a date range for purging. For a complete description of the archive/purge utility, please refer to your User Guide. Q. Will archiving shrink my database? Will it make Clients & Profits run faster? No. The database never shrinks. Instead, space is cleared out for new records. This means your archived database won’t grow as fast. The size of the database has only a marginal effect on the performance of Clients & Profits, so archiving won’t noticeably speed up adding, saving, finding, and printing records. Q. Can I archive the General Ledger? Yes, but only in very unique situations. Journal entries are purged automatically when the year is closed, so they don’t need to be archived/purged manually. The only r
