Purge Taking Forever and Going Very Slow

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Hello,

Long story short I am purging closed clients and it's going unbelievably slowly.

I am trying to purge the database from everything from our closed clients. When I run the purge, I select "Closed" clients and nothing else, no other filters. It's been going for about 32 hours so far, and here's what it tells me:

Transactions for closed names: 13,750 out of 507,197

Phase 4 of 16 complete.

And if i leave it alone for 10 or 15 minutes, it jumps to 13,800. So if you do the math, this should take just over 3 months running continuously. Obviously something isn't right. It's running on a server with plenty of memory and no other programs running. Anyone else ever experience this? Should I just cancel it?

There's only about 17,000 slips for closed clients. Why so many "transactions"? And why does Timeslips take so long to delete them??