Use the Evaluate Free Space command from the Operation menu or click the Evaluate Free Space toolbar button, to analyze and report the amount of free-space remaining in database files. For more details, see "Evaluating Free-Space", in Chapter 3.
To evaluate free-space in your files
Select the Evaluate Free Space command from the Operation menu or click the Evaluate Free Space toolbar button. The Select Files for Evaluate Free Space dialog is then displayed.
Select the required database file or files for evaluation, by performing one of the following actions.
Select the files from the Database Files list box. The selected files are highlighted. When you have selected all of the files that you require, click the Add button.
To select all of the database files, click the Add All button.
Select each file by double-clicking the file in the Database Files list box.
The selected file names are moved to the Selected files list box.
To remove database files from the Selected files list box, perform one of the following actions.
Select the files for removal from the Selected files list box. When you have selected all of the files for removal, click the Remove button.
To remove all of the files from the Selected files list box, click the Remove All button.
Select each file by double-clicking the file in the Selected files list box.
The selected file names are moved back to the Database Files list box.
If you want to look for system database files, check the Show System Files check box. (By default, system files are not displayed for selection; that is, user schema files only are displayed when you first access this dialog.)
If you do not want user schemas displayed for selection, uncheck the Show User Schema Files check box. (By default, user schema files are displayed for selection when you first access this dialog.)
When your list of selected files is complete, click the OK button to start the operation.
Alternatively, click the Cancel button to abandon your selections.
While the operation is running, a progress dialog is displayed that enables you to monitor the progress of the operation. You can abort the run, by clicking the Cancel button.
When the operation is finished, the progress dialog is closed and the following message is displayed in the running report.
<<Free space evaluation complete>>
Detailed results of the operation are written to the fspace.log file. (To view the log, select the fspace.log command from the View menu View Logs submenu. For details, see "Viewing Log Files", later in this chapter.)