Title: GD’s databases are ALWAYS modified
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# GD’s databases are ALWAYS modified

 *  [Synetech](https://wordpress.org/support/users/synetech/)
 * (@synetech)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/gds-databases-are-always-modified/)
 * GD Star Rating is pretty good, but why is it that it **always** modifies its 
   databases?
 * If you run the webserver then stop it, you will see that even if nothing else
   changed, the database files for GD have been updated. Why is this? Why does it
   modify the database(s) and write the files even if nothing has actually changed(
   i.e., no new ratings or changes)?
 * I use the multi-blog feature of WordPress and the `wp_*_gdsr_data_article.ibd`
   files _always_ get modified when I shut down the web server. This is really annoying
   because I run WordPress from a flash-drive, so having GD make a dozen unnecessary
   writes to the drive every time I run the web-server (i.e., every day) is bad.
 * Worse, it looks like GD is causing the `*options.ibd` files to get modified as
   well which means it’s writing to twice as many files.
 * Why is it doing this and how can I get it to stop (short of outright disabling
   the plugin of course)?

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