> What I have done the last 3 years or so is to 'reset' > about every six months. With a little Res Edit work > and a bit of home brewed playing I get around that > problem. Its becoming my personal New Years Eve > 'tradition' to "purge" my email. Then I do it again > usually once during the year. So far, that means July > 4th weekend. Here's the SHORT version without details. >
This seems a bit more complicated than necessary to me. I haven't used CE lately, but when I was I never noticed this slow down problem. Maybe because I only had about 7000 emails in my file at any one time. If I remember correctly, you can simply add a yyyy date to the database and index files and leave them in the mail folder and emailer will start a new database. To keep your year old messages in the current database you would need to make a copy of the db and the index and rename it by year and then delete all the messages in the current file more than a year old. I may be missing something but this seems simpler than going to through ResEdit. If you want to look up something in a previous year, simply go to the finder and add the current year to the current db files and remove the year from the file you want to inspect. When I switched to an OS X email program I had seven renamed database files in my Mail folder. I never had a problem with the database, even when switching to a new computer. Of course, before doing any of this save your mail folder to a safe location. S. Kennedy ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
