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Local History</H1>
<P CLASS="Intro"> The following preferences can be changed on the
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<strong>General &gt; Workspace &gt; Local History</strong></a> preference page.</p>
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Description</P>
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Default</P>
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<P CLASS="Para">Limit history size</P>
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<P CLASS="Para">If enabled, then options below will be used to limit the local history size on disk.</P>
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<P CLASS="Para">Enabled</P>
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<P CLASS="Para"> Days to keep files</P>
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Indicates for how many days you want to maintain changes in the local history.
History state older than this value will be lost.</P>
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7 days</P>
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Maximum entries per File</P>
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Indicates how many history states per file you want to maintain in the local
history.&nbsp;If you exceed this value, you will lose older history to make room
for new history.</P>
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50 entries</P>
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<P CLASS="Para"> Maximum file size (MB)</P>
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Indicates the maximum size of individual states in the history store.&nbsp; If a
file is over this size, it will not be stored.</P>
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1 MB</P>
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<P>&nbsp;Here is what the Local History preference page looks like:&nbsp;
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<P><img border="0" src="../images/ngrelr.png" alt="Related reference" >
<br><a href="ref-6a.htm">Local History</a>
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