We would vote for the ability to do exports/imports in the background thread too. Fetching data via Rest API does not seem to disconnect logged users, so it may be could be possible to do the same with exports/imports.
Hi,
No changes should have been made that would increase client's HDB file. Please try to delete HANSA.HDB from client folder and reconnect to server and check if it will grow to 30MB again.
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