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2008-09-15, 03:34 PM
After I used the clients display in the Sync preferences pane to eliminate a stale client, OmniFocus scrunched down my database from 4 MB to 1.4 MB and the zip file count went from a few thousand to a few hundred. Backup file size went from 8.4 MB to 2.5 MB. This is with 3 clients (all desktop).
Have a look at your clients display and see if there are some that shouldn't be there any longer. After that, keep all of the clients active for a few hours so they can do a couple of syncs and you should see some improvement. It just takes one client entry that is out of date to stop the compaction process from happening, because the other clients have to assume that client still exists and hasn't been synced. The compaction only happens when everyone is up to date.