Error trapping to avoid close-down

[wordmuse]

Several seconds as in 10 minutes? Not a huge deal; just seems like there ought to be a way to clean up a data file without having to brute force click an item, hang the program, close it, restart it, right click the offending item and delete it. With over a hundred items, my only real alternative is to delete an entire section of the database and start over.

Before I go that route, isn't there anything else I can do?

Thanks.
- Bal