Pocket PC Thoughts: Cleaning Out Those Old Digital Wallet Cards

If you're like me, you use some sort of digital wallet software on your Pocket PC. Myself, I use FlexWallet from Two Peaks. With FlexWallet at least, performance slows down once you get past 75 cards or so, because after you enter the password is has to decrypt every card in the wallet. I imagine most other digital wallet tools are the same, although I can't be sure. I had over 160 cards in my FlexWallet file, and when I started looking through them all, I realized that many of them were information I no longer needed, especially in my Passwords directory where I kept username/password information. I had dozens of accounts that I hadn't used in over a year, and various other cards containing useless bits of data. Once I cleaned them out, it made a small speed boost, but more than that it reduced the clutter and made it easier to find the cards that I accessed frequently.

So if you're looking for a speedier, more streamlined digital wallet experience, and a wallet that takes up less space on your Pocket PC, spend a few minutes and clean out those cards you're no longer user. Remember though, when in doubt, you'd better keep the data! ;-)