If you use the Domino CLI to work with projects on your local machine, you might find that storing large data files slows your download and sync operations, and fills up a lot of your local disk storage. To prevent this, store data in a Domino Dataset, and reserve your project files for the scripts and documents that you want to work with locally.
To simplify your local workflow:
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Create a Dataset in your project, and write your large data files to it.
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After the files have been written to the Dataset, remove them from your project files.
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Fetch a clean, lighter-weight copy of your project.
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Update your code to reference your data files in their new location, at:
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When everything is working properly, delete copies of the project that have the large data files in them from your local machine.
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Learn about Dataset best practices