How Groove calculates the size that is listed in the properties of a workspace (916429)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Groove Virtual Office 3.0 File Sharing Edition
  • Groove Virtual Office 3.0 Professional Edition
  • Groove Virtual Office 3.0 Project Edition
  • Groove Virtual Office 3.0 Trial Edition
  • Groove Virtual Office 3.1 File Sharing Edition
  • Groove Virtual Office 3.1 Professional Edition
  • Groove Virtual Office 3.1 Project Edition
  • Groove Virtual Office 3.1 Trial Edition
  • Groove Workspace 2.5 Preview Edition
  • Groove Workspace 2.5 Professional Edition
  • Groove Workspace 2.5 Project Edition
  • Groove Workspace 2.5 Standard Edition

INTRODUCTION

This article describes how Groove Virtual Office and Groove Workspace calculate the size that is listed in the properties of a workspace.

MORE INFORMATION

Groove calculates the size of a workspace by adding together the on-disk sizes of the database that is associated with that workspace and all the files in the binary file store that are referenced by that database. The binary file store keeps a running sum of the sizes of the files that are referenced by each workspace. Therefore, the binary file store can provide this value quickly.

Note When items are removed from a workspace, the reported size of the workspace will not decrease until that change has been transmitted to all members of the shared workspace. For example, this behavior occurs when a file is deleted in the Groove Files tool. This transmission of data can take a long time in workspaces that have many members. For more information about how to recover disk space that Groove uses, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

922142 How to recover disk space that is used by a Groove workspace

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