Title: Database Table Sizes
Last modified: December 7, 2017

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# Database Table Sizes

 *  Resolved [slomeli79](https://wordpress.org/support/users/slomeli79/)
 * (@slomeli79)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-table-sizes/)
 * Two tables of my WP installation have grown much bigger than all others:
 * [prefix]_looksee3_core
    [prefix]_looksee3_scan_files
 * Is this normal? I’ve run the usual repair/optimize/”sweep” operations, and these
   tables still take up the majority of my database size.

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 *  Plugin Author [Blobfolio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blobfolio/)
 * (@blobfolio)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-table-sizes/#post-9761360)
 * Hi [@slomeli79](https://wordpress.org/support/users/slomeli79/),
 * Yeah, those two tables can grow rather large depending on how many files you 
   are scanning. (Information about each file from each scan is stored as a row 
   in the files table.)
 * If you click the “Scan History” tab (from the main file scan page), there is 
   a “Data Retention” sidebar box with some settings to help keep that data under
   control. Make sure “Enable Pruning” is checked, and choose a somewhat small number
   of scan history to keep (somewhere between 5-10 is probably all you need). Hit“
   Save” to save the settings.
 * Pruning runs each time a new scan completes, so if you set that value to something
   lower than the current number of scans in the history, you can just run a new
   scan and it’ll clear out the old ones for you.
    -  This reply was modified 8 years, 6 months ago by [Blobfolio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blobfolio/).

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 * Last activity: [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-table-sizes/#post-9761360)
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