IMatch 2025

[BanjoTom]

Just purchased and installed IMatch 2025, and I'm thrilled to have it in hand so I can begin learning to use the new features as described in the video and release notes! 

l quickly saw that Database Diagnostics ran very quickly on my database of ~72000 files.  Yet "Compact and Optimize" has been running for 7 minutes now, and is still running; though in the last version that took less than a minute...  I will give it a few minutes more before I cancel the Compact and Optimize process.  

[Mario]

Awesome! Thanks for your business

No change to compact & optimize in IMatch 2025.
99% of the total runtime is spent in the database system, which creates a copy of the source database without all the "slack" and then deletes the original database. 100% I/O, basically. Prone for virus checkers to interfere.

Make sure you have updated exceptions for IMatch in your virus checker. IMatch 2025 uses a different file name.
See TODO #1 here: Welcome to IMatch 2025!

[BanjoTom]

Yes!  I had not updated exceptions in my Malwarebytes app; once I did that, Compact and Optimize took only 1 minute to finish!

[Mario]

Yes!  I had not updated exceptions in my Malwarebytes app; once I did that, Compact and Optimize took only 1 minute to finish!

Good result!
This is why I always make this TODO #1. Users forget, virus checker getting angry at IMatch again, performance suffers, user unhappy, Mario unhappy, ...